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Trying to move this system to the future, I've installed Fedora 18, the 64-bit version. Actually, with Fedora 18, a lot of ax25 stuff comes pre-compiled. Basically compiling the kernel or any of the ax25-utils is no longer necessary. This stuff just installs with yum and seems to work.
The bits of software I run that don't come are uronode -- and Fedora has 'node' with it and maybe that's good enough since I don't use flextnet, but anyway, I have that. Also, and this has no alternative, is f6fbb. I found that f6fbb was using 'long' for some of the tables in its binary data files. So on 64-bit it was barfing. I made patch to change those long to int, and now it seems okay. Other stuff, I'm not sure off. I think axip is working, but I'm not sure. My ampr.org ip is working, I think, but it's not optimal. At least the OS is running a modern version that I can do security updates to and keep current. UPDATE:Well, turns out that on Fedora 18 the nrattach is broken. For some reason the code to actually connect ports is screwed. So I had to recompile this from source. Also the ax25ipd doesn't have the latest patches for using the /dev/pts/ptmx style ports. By compiling this from source I was able to get this to work, I think. It's kind of a pain since the old pty's went away, though it does work. In your ax25ipd.conf file you need. device /dev/ptmx Then run ax25ipd like this... ax25ipd -c /etc/ax25/ax25ipd2.conf > out.txt rm /dev/myttyq4 -f cat out.txt | grep dev -m1 | awk '{print "ln -s "$1" /dev/myttyq4"}' | sh kissattach -l /dev/myttyq4 axip2 192.168.0.8 What this does is it prints out the port created by ax25ipd and then the awk command sucks it out and links it to a symbolic link. The thing is that this only works with the newer versions of ax25ipd, which is not located on Fedora. Get the latest at... ftp://ftp.radio-linux.org This code looks to have recent patches so it looks actively developed. |