RE: hamradio packages for 10.0

 It appears that the kissattach/mkiss interface is broken in OSS 10.0, most
likely a problem with the interface between kissattach and the mkiss kernel
module.  When doing a kissattach I get a message like "TIOCDCTL device not
found" and "did you load the MKISS module".  The mkiss module is loaded,
netstat shows a line that something happened, but there are no listeners and
subsequent commands to use the port fail.  Also, there is nothing shown in
ifconfig.  In fact if I unload mkiss with modprobe -r mkiss, ifconfig will
core dump indicating that the module has corrupted the kernel device tables.
The system will also hang when shutting down at the "shutting down network
interfaces" section of shutdown.  It occurs using either the 9.3 or 10.0
builds of ax25_tools.

I can set up a test node and try to get some better details if needed.  At
this point, I am not sure who the responsible maintainer would be.  I would
have done a little more debugging if this had not been my production server
which I had to back down to 9.3 to get it back in operation again.

73 de Mike, W1NR

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Reuter [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:37 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [suse-ham-e] hamradio packages for 10.0


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Hi,

I've finally put up the hamradio packages for SUSE Linux 10.0. Just add
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/10.0-i386/ (or one of the numerous
mirrors) as an installation source to YaST ("yast inst_source") and you can
use YaST to install the packages.

Please note that I just have built those packages and haven't tested a
single one. Especially the baycomepp and soundmodem packages contain some
adjustments of preprocessor macros that wouldn't compile with GGC 4
otherwise. qgrid has been dropped as I really don't have the time to fix the
makefile...

Bug reports, preferably with diffs that I just need to add to the spec file,
are appreciated, but please note that I'm building the packages when I have
some excess time here at work, which only happens very rarely.

And, of course, these packages are *not* official SUSE Linux packages.

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Ich habe jetzt endlich die Amateurfunkpakete für SUSE Linux 10.0 gebaut
bekommen und unter ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/10.0-i386/
abgelegt. Einfach obige URL (oder einen der vielen Mirrors) in YaST als
Installationsquelle hinzufügen ("yast inst_source") und mit YaST
installieren.

Beachtet bitte, dass ich die Pakete nur gebaut, aber nicht ein einziges
davon getestet habe. Insbesondere baycomepp und soundmodem enthalten einige
Änderungen an Präprozessor-Makros, da sie sonst nicht mit GCC 4 kompilierbar
sind. qgrid gibt es nicht mehr, ich habe nicht die Zeit, das Makefile zu
reparieren...

Bug-Berichte, bevorzugt mit Patchfiles, die ich lediglich dem Specfile
hinzufügen muss, sind willkommen, allerdings bitte ich zu beachten, dass ich
mich nur drum kümmern kann, wenn ich hier mal ein paar freie Minuten habe,
was in den letzten Jahren zunehmend seltener vorkommt.

Und natürlich sind es *keine* offiziellen SUSE-Linux-Pakete.

Have a lot of fun,
-- 
Joerg Reuter DL1BKE                             http://yaina.de/jreuter
And I make my way to where the warm scent of soil fills the evening air. 
Everything is waiting quietly out there....                 (Anne Clark)