[FADCA] Re: Help Fixed

[Dan Babilla]

Chuck,

With a TNC-2 type of TNCs (MFJ stack) on a Linux FPAC node. Can I leave the 
KISS EPROMs in the TNCs or do I need the TNC2 chips in the TNC boxes? How 
about a Linux FPAC file or CD for our nodes?

Thanks,

Dan KA0OXH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association" 
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Re: Help Fixed


> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:08:38 EST, Kg4fcd at aol.com <Kg4fcd at aol.com> wrote:
>>   Thanks fellows for the suggestions.
>> I have found that the TNC has a command called CD. This must be set to
>> software for it to work in my set up at least. As soon as I get the 
>> antenna back up
>> I should be back on the air.
>>
>
> Good, Bud's info was very good. I think one thing we need is sort of a
> repository
> of TNC tricks. There are basicly three families of TNC out there that we 
> see in
> this country
>
> TNC-2                       Kantronics                             AEA
> AEA - some
> MFJ
> PacComm
>
> The command structure will fall under one of these three families.
>
> KISS
> Again the same sort of thing. Kantronics appears to have adopted the
> BPQKiss format
> for accessing multiple ports, if you can talk BPQKiss you can talk to
> both ports, in
> linux you have one physical port and two seudoports, one for each of
> the ports in the
> TNC.
>
> I am not sure but believe that AEA uses a modified set of commands to
> start KISS, but
> I believe it is standard KISS.
>
> TNC-2 familiy.
> All come with standard KISS installed,
>
> BPQKiss is available as a separate file, if you are going
> to use multiple TNC's on a serial port you will need to go in and
> change the address
> byte as per the BPQKiss docs. BPQKiss should operate with the serial
> port at twice
> the speed of the fastest HDLC port.
>
> 6Pack is also available for TNC-2 type machines. The function of 6pack
> sets somewhere
> between BPQKiss and a full blown TNC. It handles the timing and
> channel access in the
> TNC where it is actually seeing the channel activity. It tells the
> host PC when the channel
> is busy or available allowing timers to be stopped and started based
> on channel activity.
> With the correct drivers 6pack can also handle multi-drop off of a
> single serial port. You
> must operate the RS-232 port at twice the highest HDLC data rate.
> Unlike BPQKiss,
> 6pack is daisychained one TNC to another, the data is handled similar
> to a toke ring.
> The first TNC in the loop corresponds to port 0, second one to port 1 etc.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Chuck Hast
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
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