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

[fay.james at att.net]

There are a couple of KISS-only TNCs. I use tnc-x

Jim n3hpz

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Bob Nielsen <n7xy at clearwire.net>
>
> 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
> n7xy at clearwire.net
> 
> 
> 
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