On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 08:33:04AM -0800, David Ranch wrote:
Hey Jon,
I saw both of your emails and I think this great work and your observation
of the missing AX.25 device like "ax0" from the output of "netstat -A ax25
-an" is an interesting one. I'll look for that as well.
Beyond that, if you're looking for a solid AX.25 stack for your Raspberry Pi
1 or Raspberry Pi 2 hardware, I'd have to recommend using a VERY old release
like Jessie with the 4.14 kernel. Making that recommendation really pains
me as it's EOL, known insecure, etc. but bad patches started getting
integrated into the Linux kernel around the 4.17 time frame.
You can see some of this hardware compatibility vs. OS version detail
captured here:
--David
KI6ZHD
Well if the cause is/was bad patches, I am wondering if a frankenstein
kernel would work with the old AX.25 code "grafted in" to the new
kernel. I am wondering what kind of mess that would make. Not a kernel
programmer, so I am not sure what all would be involved. I think
compiling an old slackware distro for a R-Pi 3 would be interesting too.
73 de Chris KQ6UP
