[ale] Ham radio kernel options SOLVED

Glenn C. Lasher Jr. glasher at nycap.rr.com
Mon Feb 11 15:47:53 EST 2002



FOUND IT!

Apparently Soundcard modem support has a dependency on parallel port
support, which I had omitted to make a lean/mean kernel.  The parallel
port support is used in order to signal the radio to go into transmit.



On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>
> > depreciated?
>
> Shouldn't be.  The Linux Amateur Radio AX.25 HOWTO makes reference to
> building it into a 2.4.9 kernel, and it has been there at least since
> 2.2.something.  I just haven't previously had need of it....
>
>
>
>
> > >
> > > I'm attempting to set up a system for packet radio operations on the
> > ham
> > > radio bands.  I'm intending to do this using the soundmodem drivers,
> > which
> > > utilize the soundcard as a modem.  According to the AX25-howto, I
> > need to
> > > check off these options as appropriate under the Amateur Radio Support
> > > hierarchy in the configuration script.  However, I do not
> > get "Soundcard
> > > modem driver" as an option to check off.  Anyone have any suggestions
> > why
> > > this might be the case?  Kernel version is 2.4.5, distro is Slackware
> > 8.
> > >
> > >
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