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

[Bob Nielsen]

For any installation requiring full-time KISS operation, I highly  
recommend using a KISS-only EPROM, which absolutely cannot drop out  
of KISS mode.  Unfortunately, the only available code is for TNC2  
clones, which are not being made anymore.  I believe that TAPR still  
sells the EPROMs, however and the hex code is available on the TAPR  
web site.  There is a variant of this in the G8BPQ node software  
package.

73, Bob N7XY

On Feb 24, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Bob Tenty wrote:

>
>> 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.
>
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Bob Nielsen
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