[nos-bbs] Ubuntu 7.X and JNOS 2.0 - maybe not ...

[Bob Tenty]

>There are underlying issues with the ax25 stack is my guess vs the
>system libs as I have intermittent issues there.  It's really bad if I
>up/down/up/down the ax25 layer on a single boot.  I'm too
>inexperienced to give exact details, but there was something 'weird'
>going on with ax25 vs my PK-88 in KISS mode.

I noticed that the tnc could be kicked out of  KISS during the boot process 
at a remote gateway installation.
I resolved that by switching the tnc into kiss every time after a reboot to be 
sure before the rest of the ax25 stuff in the following way.

#set ttyS0 to 19200 baud, put tnc into kiss & use hardware handshaking

stty 19200 < /dev/ttyS0
sleep 2
echo -e "\rkiss on\r" > /dev/ttyS0
sleep 2
echo -e "\rrestart\r" > /dev/ttyS0
sleep 2
stty crtscts < /dev/ttyS0

73,

Bob VE3TOK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris" <kc2rgw at gmail.com>
To: "TAPR xNOS Mailing List" <nos-bbs at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: February 22, 2008 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] Ubuntu 7.X and JNOS 2.0 - maybe not ...


JNOS2 that I built on Ubuntu 7.10 seems fine.

The Ubuntu distribution supplied FBB is very buggy, crashes for me all
the time and freezes up the system nicely.  I haven't tried compiling
that from source yet as I don't really need FBB here.

URONode runs fine, compiled fine etc.  There may be issues with flexd
on Ubuntu as well, I forget what was determined there.  I got
sidetracked by the job and haven't been back at the packet in a couple
weeks.

There are underlying issues with the ax25 stack is my guess vs the
system libs as I have intermittent issues there.  It's really bad if I
up/down/up/down the ax25 layer on a single boot.  I'm too
inexperienced to give exact details, but there was something 'weird'
going on with ax25 vs my PK-88 in KISS mode.

If I bring up the system clean, bring up the ax25 stuff and leave it
alone, it's generally o.k. for me, but I haven't left it up for more
than 24hrs on packet duty so I don't have any long term experience to
share yet.