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Re: AX.25 in the kernel



In the world of fedora you can run `modprobe -a ax25`. Maybe we need to look into this?

The Fedora setup is mostly the same - the modules aren't loaded by default but they are supplied in the kernel-modules-extra package. 

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On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, at 3:52 PM, Iain Learmonth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 06/08/2019 14:31, Iain Learmonth wrote:
> > I'm not sure yet if we can do this in a postinst script or if users will
> > need to manually load the modules.
> 
> I actually have no idea what to do here. I've tried looking for other
> packages that use modules that have disabled autoloading but they don't
> seem to really exist.
> 
> The DECnet stuff package seems to not do anything about the lack of
> module autoloading support. I couldn't find anything that requires
> 802.15.4 or DCCP. I have no idea what RDS even is.
> 
> If you have ideas on how to re-enable module autoloading for hamradio
> protocols when libax25 is installed then please let me know.
> 
> Manually running cryptic commands like modprobe tty-ldisc-5 to get MKISS
> loaded, for example, is not really great for end users and I have no
> idea how we communicate this to users either.
> 
> Thanks,
> Iain.
> 
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