multiple kiss ports

multiple kiss ports

[Stef Daniels VK5HSX]

Greetings,

	I am in the process of trying to get a BBS back operational. The
following is the setup:

P4 1.2Ghz Celeron
MSI Motherboard
512MB RAM
40GB ATA Drive
ttyS0 ->  9600bd -MFJ 1270b (1200bd TNC) axport '2'
ttyS1 ->  4800bd - AEA PK232 (4800bd TNC) axport '3'
Debian GNU\linux 3.1  (2.4.27 kernel)
using: libax25-0.0.11, ax25-apps-0.0.6, aax25-tools-0.0.8, node-0.3.2,
fbb7.04j

The problem is after we run our ax25 script to call up modules, tnc into
kiss and kissattach devices (which all work fine), upon connect using
port '2' the tnc "sta" LED comes on and tnc hangs.

We have tried the following:

Different- Computers, Cables, TNC's, O\S's, kernel's, hardrive, P\Supply
and Serial ports (PCI Serial Cards), to NO avail.

Any ideas, help, comments greatfully and most appreciatedly received!!


-- 
Regards,

Stef Daniels VK5HSX             (OpenPGP:0xFDE007F6)
Amateur Radio Station
Adelaide, South Australia
E-mail: vk5hsx@wia.org.au
Member Wireless Inst. of Aust.  (www.wia.org.au)
Proud Debian GNU\Linux User.    (www.au.debian.org)

Re: multiple kiss ports

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:03:06AM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote:

> P4 1.2Ghz Celeron
> MSI Motherboard
> 512MB RAM
> 40GB ATA Drive
> ttyS0 ->  9600bd -MFJ 1270b (1200bd TNC) axport '2'
> ttyS1 ->  4800bd - AEA PK232 (4800bd TNC) axport '3'
> Debian GNU\linux 3.1  (2.4.27 kernel)
> using: libax25-0.0.11, ax25-apps-0.0.6, aax25-tools-0.0.8, node-0.3.2,
> fbb7.04j
> 
> The problem is after we run our ax25 script to call up modules, tnc into
> kiss and kissattach devices (which all work fine), upon connect using
> port '2' the tnc "sta" LED comes on and tnc hangs.
> 
> We have tried the following:
> 
> Different- Computers, Cables, TNC's, O\S's, kernel's, hardrive, P\Supply
> and Serial ports (PCI Serial Cards), to NO avail.
> 
> Any ideas, help, comments greatfully and most appreciatedly received!!

Did you try a 2.6 kernel also?  The 2.4 mkiss driver usually works just
fine but it's a fairly suspect piece of code anyway,  so I've turned the
KISS driver upside down for Linux 2.6.

A no-no at the current state of the code are SMP or preemptible kernels.

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

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Re: multiple kiss ports

[Ray Wells]

Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>	I am in the process of trying to get a BBS back operational. The
>following is the setup:
>
>P4 1.2Ghz Celeron
>MSI Motherboard
>512MB RAM
>40GB ATA Drive
>ttyS0 ->  9600bd -MFJ 1270b (1200bd TNC) axport '2'
>ttyS1 ->  4800bd - AEA PK232 (4800bd TNC) axport '3'
>Debian GNU\linux 3.1  (2.4.27 kernel)
>using: libax25-0.0.11, ax25-apps-0.0.6, aax25-tools-0.0.8, node-0.3.2,
>fbb7.04j
>
>The problem is after we run our ax25 script to call up modules, tnc into
>kiss and kissattach devices (which all work fine), upon connect using
>port '2' the tnc "sta" LED comes on and tnc hangs.
>
>We have tried the following:
>
>Different- Computers, Cables, TNC's, O\S's, kernel's, hardrive, P\Supply
>and Serial ports (PCI Serial Cards), to NO avail.
>
>Any ideas, help, comments greatfully and most appreciatedly received!!
>
>
>  
>
Hi Stef,

You haven't really told us much, some configs would be nice, especially 
your ax25 start-up file, axports, and port.sys for starters.

Does the problem occur using the call function or does it happen from 
the bbs? You don't say if you're trying to use the bbs yet, only that 
you want to get one running, and you don't say what the bbs is (or will 
be). It's not safe to assume fbb.

Did you really try different O\S's, or was it just different Linux 
distributions?

Although I'm using kernel 2.6.18-3 on the system here, I do have another 
installation on a P166 with kernel 2.4.31 (from memory), and they both 
work ok.

Both machines run Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

Ray vk2tv

Re: multiple kiss ports

[Bernard Pidoux]

Stef Daniels VK5HSX a écrit :
> Greetings,
>
> 	I am in the process of trying to get a BBS back operational. The
> following is the setup:
>
> P4 1.2Ghz Celeron
> MSI Motherboard
> 512MB RAM
> 40GB ATA Drive
> ttyS0 ->  9600bd -MFJ 1270b (1200bd TNC) axport '2'
> ttyS1 ->  4800bd - AEA PK232 (4800bd TNC) axport '3'
> Debian GNU\linux 3.1  (2.4.27 kernel)
> using: libax25-0.0.11, ax25-apps-0.0.6, aax25-tools-0.0.8, node-0.3.2,
> fbb7.04j
>
> The problem is after we run our ax25 script to call up modules, tnc into
> kiss and kissattach devices (which all work fine), upon connect using
> port '2' the tnc "sta" LED comes on and tnc hangs.
>
> We have tried the following:
>
> Different- Computers, Cables, TNC's, O\S's, kernel's, hardrive, P\Supply
> and Serial ports (PCI Serial Cards), to NO avail.
>
> Any ideas, help, comments greatfully and most appreciatedly received!!
>
>
>   
Are you sure that your TNCs are set in KISS mode before using mkiss 
driver for AX25 ?

You must put them into KISS mode manually while no mkiss driver is 
loaded and using a terminal program
such as MINICOM.

I used minicom to adjust my KPC9612 dual port TNC serial baud rate and 
calibrate the modulation
level of 1200 and 9600 baud radio ports.


73 de Bernard, f6bvp


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