[FADCA] Fwd: Trying to get Ax25 running.

[Chuck Hast]

Folks,
I normaly bottom quote but this one is long and I want you to get right to
it. Robert appears to be wanting to continue work on ax25-config and it
looks like we have a chance to help update and make a nice config tool
for us and users in general, be nice to add the fpac configuration to it
so we just bring the whole thing up and configure it all at one fell swoop.

You can contact robert directly, perhaps we want to create a ax25-config
list in order to keep it visible to all?



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: robsh at robsh.de <robsh at robsh.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:43:33 +0200
Subject: Re: Trying to get Ax25 running.
To: Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com>


Hello Chuck,

here is Robert, DL1NC/N9KBK. I am currently at work (writing
my diploma thesis) and only have access to a primitive
webmailer, sorry for that.

I am part of the loosely knit group named "1409" which used
to meet on channel 1409 in the DL-wide convers network.
We lost our domain 1409.org by accident and now have our
pages running at http://linkt.de and http://1409.linkt.de. Most
of us aren't QRV in packet radio anymore, many not QRV at
all. Studies completed, most are working and have families.
You will notice this when you view the pages, because some
pages actually are wrong by now.

As you already have noticed, the AX25-HOWTO itself is
seriously outdated. That's why Mirco DG2FER wrote a small
script for automating the AX25 setup -- ax25-config. He ran
out of time and Walter DG0AN continued the project. I
suppose you got your copy from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ax25config/. If you look at
the CVS repository, you can see that the script has not been
updated for four years(!). Kernel-AX25 has been buggy in the
2.4 series and a lot of changes have been made, which now
need to be reflected in ax25-config.

I have taken over out packet radio terminal software for KDE,
called LinKT. I believe it is the only graphical packet radio
terminal available for Linux (although I have heard Linpac to
have received a new GUI entention). Additionally, it seems
like ax25-config has been abandoned and if I don't do
something about it, it will totally rot.

Please have another look at the SourceForge page and enter
any bugs you find and wishes you have into the tracker. I
just checked -- there are forums available, but nobody has
used them yet. This could certainly be changed.

Mainly ax25-config has been used by hams in DL. That's
why the comments in the script are in German. (The main
reason probably is that the last author is an OM who can't
speak English, at least not very much.)

If we can make some enhancements to ax25-config, I'd love
to release a new version and announce it on linux-hams. I
can't post to the list from here, but I might remember to write
a short note on the webpage in the next days.

Once again, I'd like to revive the project and I would
appreciate any help I can get!

73, Robert



-- 
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."