Outside Connectivity?

[kq6up]

Ok, I was able to get KA9Q running in DOS with all the important stuff running. Came back here to see if I could do the same with the KA9Q for UNIX. I am able to login with the loopback only here in UNIX. With DOS, I can get the ethernet (FTP resident driver) to talk to my LAN and do FTP/TELNET. I was also able to get it to talk to my TNC over serial/KISS. With the UNIX code again I only have loopback. I tried reading the source in the unix folder, but alas I am not much of a programmer beyond stuff I do for physics algorithms. So I am not sure if there is some sort of tun/tap or the ability to talk to world via a UNIX socket. So some very minimal bootstrap doc would be super helpful. I have the rest of the DOS documents for this package.

I also built Phil's source here in gethub with IN DOS with a Borland C compiler. It functions exactly the same as the version here.

I ended up using an older version because Phil's latest seems to be missing the connection between the "attach asy" driver and the ax.25 stack. In the older version, I initiate the KISS/AX.25 radio port by doing:

DOS: attach asy 0x3f8 4 ax25 tnc0 2048 9600
UNIX: attach asy /dev/cuau0 ax25 tnc0 2048 9600

In Phil's Github version (and your fork of that source I presume), I get the error:

Mode ax25 unknown for interface tnc0,

but I can replace the ax25 with "slip" and I takes it with no error. This leads believe I could setup some sort of slip link with the outside world. However, I am thinking your folks already have other options for connectivity.

I would love to play with this some more.

-Chris KQ6UP

[erikarn]

oh interesting! Can you share your build instructions for DOS? :-) I, surprisingly, have a working DOS computer or five. :)

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On Sat, 4 May 2024 at 10:12, kq6up ***@***.***> wrote: Ok, I was able to get KA9Q running in DOS with all the important stuff running. Came back here to see if I could do the same with the KA9Q for UNIX. I am able to login with the loopback only here in UNIX. With DOS, I can get the ethernet (FTP resident driver) to talk to my LAN and do FTP/TELNET. I was also able to get it to talk to my TNC over serial/KISS. With the UNIX code again I only have loopback. I tried reading the source in the unix folder, but alas I am not much of a programmer beyond stuff I do for physics algorithms. So I am not sure if there is some sort of tun/tap or the ability to talk to world via a UNIX socket. So some very minimal bootstrap doc would be super helpful. I have the rest of the DOS documents for this package. I also built Phil's source here in gethub with IN DOS with a Borland C compiler. It functions exactly the same as the version here. I ended up using an older version because Phil's latest seems to be missing the connection between the "attach asy" driver and the ax.25 stack. In the older version, I initiate the KISS/AX.25 radio port by doing: attach asy 0x3f8 4 ax25 tnc0 2048 9600 In Phil's Github version (and your fork of that source I presume), I get the error: Mode ax25 unknown for interface tnc0, but I can replace the ax25 with "slip" and I takes it with no error. This leads believe I could setup some sort of slip link with the outside world. However, I am thinking your folks already have other options for connectivity. I would love to play with this some more. -Chris KQ6UP — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#23>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAI2L3MCCNE7JAZMHTXGBO3ZAUJGXAVCNFSM6AAAAABHG7FPOKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZSGI3TSMJRHA3TINI> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[kq6up]

All I had to do was do a make in the source directory with Borland C installed on my system. I is exactly the same thing that you guys have going here for FreeBSD.