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- From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: KA9Q
- Keywords: KA9Q Help SLS 0.98pl5
- Message-ID: <Jan.24.22.46.26.1993.3049@geneva.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:46:30 GMT
- References: <jmaclean.10.727553610@fox.nstn.ns.ca> <44GZ02Sn33cT01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1993Jan21.212912.10969@kksys.com>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- jmk@kksys.com (Jim Kaufman) writes:
-
- >1) I downloaded the source files for KA9Q.7 from sunsite. Did I get the
- > right file?
-
- Yes.
-
- >2) If so, I am confused by the README.WD file. It tells me to move weregs.h
- > and we.c (possibly wrong names - I'm at work) to /kernel/chr_dev directory
- > and make some changes to main.c and the Makefile.
- > However, there IS a version of we.c and weregs.h in
- > /net/tcp. Does one supercede the other or what?
-
- The WE code with KA9Q is an older version of the WE code with TCP.
- Unfortunately the facility that KA9Q depends upon (the ability to open
- the raw device) was removed in later versions. This means that you
- can't use KA9Q and the kernel TCP with the same kernel. Note also
- that the kernel code distributed in KA9Q hasn't been tested since
- about 0.97. I should warn you that KA9Q is used primarily with async
- lines. While I believe it works with WD8003's if the kernel support
- is properly installed, some people have reported problems getting
- various WD things properly configured. Note that I had access to
- appropriate hardware for only about 4 hours, so this is hardly
- finished code. If you have Ethernet, I'd guess that you would be
- happier using the kernel TCP implementation rather than KA9Q.
-
- >3) Do I need to rebuild the kernel or is tcp/ip support and/or WD8003
- > support built in? (SLS 0.98, pl5).
-
- Recent versions of SLS have the kernel TCP builtin, but not the
- support for KA9Q. I don't know whether 0.98 is recent enough, but
- I think so.
-