[nos-bbs] Ubuntu 9.10 issues and tip....

[Chris]

Yeah a standard TNC is doing all the work. No problems there. It's the
soundcard packet setup that has given me headaches. I'm unsure exactly
where the issue is.

This did happen with the kernel level soundmodem as well as with the
user space soundmodem config, which leads me to suspect the ax25 or
mkiss kernel modules.


On 2/16/10, Bob Tenty <bobtenty at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I didn't experience that problem you have with Ubuntu  using a
> standard  tnc.
> Is this this not related to  the soundmodem software?
> Maybe you can test it with a standard tnc.
> Is not something  competing with soundmodem for sound access?
>
> 73,
>
> Bob VE3TOK
>
> Chris wrote:
>> So I've had some rather inconsistent issues with Ubuntu 9.10 using
>> both the native linux ax.25 utlities and JNOS2.  All using the user
>> space soundmodem utility compiled from latest.
>>
>> I had a 'sliding' window issue where the packet would either be
>> foreshortened or cut off, regardless of some rather long experimental
>> txdelay and txtail settings.  It feels like the OS is randomly
>> delaying the generation of the packet data.  So the radio will key up
>> but randomly either send the packet just fine, or cut it off on the
>> beginning or the end of the packet.
>>
>> What I discovered is that on a clean system boot, a single bring up of
>> the 'packet engine' as it were, everything works just great with
>> either native linux utils or JNOS2.  I had been doing a lot of
>> fiddling around so I had been bringing the soundmodem interface up and
>> down multiple times on the same boot and swapping between the linux
>> native mode and JNOS2.  I tried this with a start and stop script that
>> both did and didn't unload and load the kernel modules with no
>> difference in behavior.  Messing with ax.25 params on the fly didn't
>> seem to make any difference either.
>>
>> I'm certain there weren't any double instances of anything running.
>> The script checks for this and Ive manually checked for it.
>>
>> What the actual root cause is, I have no idea, but I've observed
>> issues with this going back to Ubuntu 6.x releases and have not tried
>> with any other distributions.  So I have no clue if it is peculiar to
>> Ubuntu or not.  I just know that the easy solution is to simply only
>> bring up packet ops once per boot session and reboot if I wish to swap
>> anything around.
>>
>> If I just had to guess, I would guess that the ax.25 kernel modules
>> are not really cleanly unloading even if lsmod is showing they have
>> been removed.  Logically I'm not sure of any other reason that would
>> cause this seeming loop in the timing of the packets.
>>
>> My soundcard hardware is a Tigertronics Signalink USB, though I doubt
>> it is anything to do with that in and of itself.
>>
>>
>
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