[nos-bbs] Help with getting minimal JNOS configuration working

David Lolling dave.lolling at gmail.com
Sun May 7 20:37:26 EDT 2023


Chris and All,

Thanks for the information.  I have seen this repository before and was not
sure if that was the real latest update or not.  A lot of information is
floating around.  I initially started this journey trying to build
everything for use on a cheap single board computer running Armbian and
realized some of the packages for AX25 were bad/broken so then I started to
suspect some of the software and the platform I chose.  I later moved back
to Raspberry PI and again wondered if some of the packages were flakey or
if my cheap test setup was causing issues.

I am Ok with building from source.  I have also read in older documentation
it is necessary to recompile the kernel to add AX25 support.  Is that still
the case?

My goal is to eventually build a reliable system for my community so I am
interested in the details.

Thanks again for your help and have a great week!
73 Dave, KD9GN

On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 7:01 PM Chris Maness <christopher.maness at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And for clarification I don't mean that it is unfortunate that the
> code has been updated and put together with a nice script, I mean that
> it is unfortunate that these fixes have not been applied to the
> official repository at:
>
> https://linux-ax25.in-berlin.de/wiki/Main_Page
>
> Again, this information will save you some pain and frustration of
> figuring all of this out the hard way.
>
> 73 de Chris KQ6UP
>
> On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 4:53 PM Chris Maness
> <christopher.maness at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Our pleasure (I hope I can speak for all who replied), and you may
> > certainly run into some snags but reach out here or on:
> >
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/networking/ax25.html
> >
> > Also, the "official" AX.25 user space programs are out of date, but
> > unfortunately the "fixed/updated" versions are found here:
> >
> > https://github.com/ve7fet/linuxax25
> >
> > The contain a script that should make .deb packages for you.  I am
> > going to assume for now that you are familiar with git and chmod to
> > run the script in the top level directory of this git repository.
> >
> > These links should save you from some "pain".
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> > On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 4:41 PM David Lolling <dave.lolling at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks everyone for your suggestions.  I will keep working on it!  I
> am running JNOS as root on the RPI.  My long term plan is to run this on a
> small form factor PC rather than a PI.
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 6:11 PM Chris Maness <
> christopher.maness at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> No worries at all, Maiko.  We all know that you are doing the Lords
> work, 😂
> > >>
> > >> -Chris
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 3:58 PM Maiko (Personal) <maiko at pcsinternet.ca>
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm having a bad day, here I was replying to James, should be Dave,
> > >>> sorry guys. Also, I should have done some reading on the direwolf
> > >>> user guide before posting what I did, my apologies for jumping the
> > >>> gun. That's what happens when one spends more time programming, then
> > >>> doing actual ham radio (for the last few years anyways), sigh ...
> > >>>
> > >>> Maiko / VE4KLM
> > >>>
> > >>> On 2023-05-07 5:50 p.m., Chris Maness wrote:
> > >>> > Maiko, I have used direwolf with kiss using the -p option, and it
> works
> > >>> > better than the AGWPE port.  I found that flakey.  I don’t
> remember the
> > >>> > exact details, but switched back to the pseudo terminal version,
> and it
> > >>> > works great.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > -Chris KQ6UP
> > >>> >
> > >>> > On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 3:46 PM James Smith <js.lanshark at gmail.com
> > >>> > <mailto:js.lanshark at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >>> >
> > >>> >     Thanks Maiko!
> > >>> >
> > >>> >     On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 6:38 PM Maiko (Personal)
> > >>> >     <maiko at pcsinternet.ca <mailto:maiko at pcsinternet.ca>> wrote:
> > >>> >
> > >>> >         Direwolf is a software modem, you should be using agwpe
> driver.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >         Read this document, jump to section 5.6
> > >>> >
> > >>> >         https://www.langelaar.net/jnos2/documents/j2addendum.txt
> > >>> >         <https://www.langelaar.net/jnos2/documents/j2addendum.txt>
> > >>> >
> > >>> >         It's a TCP/IP connection, direwolf is the one talking to
> the
> > >>> >         TNC, not JNOS, so you can't use attach asy type commands.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >         Maiko
> > >>> >
> > >>> >          >     Virtual KISS TNC is available on /dev/pts/2
> > >>> >          >     Ready to accept AGW client application 0 on port
> 8000 ...
> > >>> >          >     Ready to accept KISS TCP client application 0 on
> port
> > >>> >         8001 ...
> > >>> >          >     Created symlink /tmp/kisstnc -> /dev/pts/2
> > >>> >
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> > >>> > --
> > >>> > Thanks,
> > >>> > Chris Maness
> > >>> > -Sent from my iPhone
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