New Linux hamradio related website.

New Linux hamradio related website.

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB]

One of the things that are really bad about the Linux packet radio code
is it's distinct lack of reasonable documentation.  So I've setup

  http://www.linux-ax25.org

The site is a wiki meaning that everybody after creating an account can
edit the content using a simple markup language.  To get started I've
primed the site with the content of the old ham-radio and AX.25 howtos.

I'm eventually planning to host more software and projects such as my
AX.25 kernel work on that size but for the moment the wiki is what
actually is there.

What is the site intended for?  I'd like to phrase it more general than
the domain name may suggest, anything related to Linux and amateur radio
is welcome.  Documentation of software, hints on how to get things to
work, background on why things are or have to be the way they are etc.

A potencial future wiki project would be a translation of the wiki to
multiple languages in spirit very similar to wikipedia.  It would be
simple for me to setup multiple parallel sites - but starting such a
project would be foolish without the manpower to keep all translations
in sync and maintained.  Is there enough interest?  I would expect that
answer to be yes at least for some of the major European languages as
shown by the large number of existing translations of howto projects.

So, I'm posting to this list in order to ask others to contribute to the
site, even contributions as small as a spelling fix or a healthy discussion
are welcome.

  Ralf

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

PS: The linux-ax25.org domain used to be owned somebody else previousl.  I'm
    not associated with that person or group.  In fact I don't even know
    who they were.

--
Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21

Re: New Linux hamradio related website.

[Vic]

>   http://www.linux-ax25.org
>
> The site is a wiki

You're using v1.4.15 of MediaWiki, which is really rather old (and has
some security holes). My sites currently use 1.5.8, and 1.6.3 is now out
(haven't upgraded yet).

You might want ot think about upgrading...

Vic.

Re: New Linux hamradio related website.

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Vic wrote:

> >   http://www.linux-ax25.org
> >
> > The site is a wiki
> 
> You're using v1.4.15 of MediaWiki, which is really rather old (and has
> some security holes). My sites currently use 1.5.8, and 1.6.3 is now out
> (haven't upgraded yet).
> 
> You might want ot think about upgrading...

I knew that sort of reply was coming :-)

I have some infrastructure behind my mediawikis (the physical server
machine is hosting other projects, too) and some software will need a
rewrite before an upgrade is possible.  Later this week, I hope.

  Ralf

Re: New Linux hamradio related website.

[Vic]

> I have some infrastructure behind my mediawikis (the physical server
> machine is hosting other projects, too) and some software will need a
> rewrite before an upgrade is possible.  Later this week, I hope.

I have RPMs and SRPMs for RHEL3, if that's any use to you...

Vic.

Re: New Linux hamradio related website.

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:58:23AM +0100, Vic wrote:

> > I have some infrastructure behind my mediawikis (the physical server
> > machine is hosting other projects, too) and some software will need a
> > rewrite before an upgrade is possible.  Later this week, I hope.
> 
> I have RPMs and SRPMs for RHEL3, if that's any use to you...

The Fedora extras repository for FC4 has a mediawiki 1.5.8, the FC5
extras repository currently has a 1.5.7 rpm package, btw.

Aside of being too old to be useful as an upgrade it doesn't really help
in my situation because I modify the code anyway.

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

--
Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21

Writing raw ax25 packets -- "no buffer space available"

[Cathryn Mataga]

I'm working on a little program that needs to out put raw ax25. And it's
working somewhat, though not completely. Basically the code uses
socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_AX25);. It builds
a kiss header of one byte, and then fills in a packet. I bind( and then
send(. That's basically the whole thing.

(For the curious I thought it'd be fun to print out messages on
my TS2000 using the CLuster feature, but this needs 'connected
packets' on DX Cluster format, and I seem to need to go raw for this.
I do have this working and I have it setup now so I type a comand line
and a message pops up on the LCD on the TS2000.)

Here's the deal. I have a sound modem setup and also a PK232 in
KISS which I can test hooked to the system. These both work fine.

But, I also have a 'KPC-9612' with 3 ports plugged in , and when I send
raw packets to this, I get a "No buffer space available" error. This is
on the first and only send(

I'm using /sbin/mkiss to plug create the three ports from one serial
port, and I was thinking it's somehow related to this. Though I'm
not really sure. I guess SOCK_RAW would just send data to
mkiss just like the other ports. It seems like it wouldn't be a problem.

In the kernel, I only see one ENOBUFS in ax25 and that's in AF_AX25
after a kmalloc, but this doesn't make any sense. It must be coming from
somewhere else I think. The issue is not a 'flakey' at all here, and it
just doesn't work on mkiss. It shows an error consistently. The send(
call gets ENOBUFS returned to it, but 'listen' never sees anything going out
at all.

Anyway, I'm posing this in case someone else has information on
how to write raw AX25. I didn't really find what looked like a recent
simple example of this in any of the AX5 libraries or tools.

Thank you.

test

[richard]

test only

Re: Writing raw ax25 packets -- "no buffer space available"

[Cathryn Mataga]

Cathryn Mataga wrote:

Okay, sorry, never mind.  I restarted the Linux machine and it works 
now.  I think
my Kam ports got confused due to some other unrelated issue. 

Right now it looks like sending RAW ax25 is working on all my RF ports.

> I'm working on a little program that needs to out put raw ax25. And it's
> working somewhat, though not completely. Basically the code uses
> socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_AX25);. It builds
> a kiss header of one byte, and then fills in a packet. I bind( and then
> send(. That's basically the whole thing.
>
> (For the curious I thought it'd be fun to print out messages on
> my TS2000 using the CLuster feature, but this needs 'connected
> packets' on DX Cluster format, and I seem to need to go raw for this.
> I do have this working and I have it setup now so I type a comand line
> and a message pops up on the LCD on the TS2000.)
>
> Here's the deal. I have a sound modem setup and also a PK232 in
> KISS which I can test hooked to the system. These both work fine.
>
> But, I also have a 'KPC-9612' with 3 ports plugged in , and when I send
> raw packets to this, I get a "No buffer space available" error. This is
> on the first and only send(
>
> I'm using /sbin/mkiss to plug create the three ports from one serial
> port, and I was thinking it's somehow related to this. Though I'm
> not really sure. I guess SOCK_RAW would just send data to
> mkiss just like the other ports. It seems like it wouldn't be a problem.
>
> In the kernel, I only see one ENOBUFS in ax25 and that's in AF_AX25
> after a kmalloc, but this doesn't make any sense. It must be coming from
> somewhere else I think. The issue is not a 'flakey' at all here, and it
> just doesn't work on mkiss. It shows an error consistently. The send(
> call gets ENOBUFS returned to it, but 'listen' never sees anything 
> going out
> at all.
>
> Anyway, I'm posing this in case someone else has information on
> how to write raw AX25. I didn't really find what looked like a recent
> simple example of this in any of the AX5 libraries or tools.
>
> Thank you.
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