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- From: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
- Subject: Re: Printcap / SLIP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.193344.7887@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- References: <6-PCNews-124beta@alpha.saar.de> <C1DAps.Fss@ichaos.nullnet.fi> <C1F7oI.G7E@rice.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:33:44 GMT
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- In article <C1F7oI.G7E@rice.edu> adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:
- >Two questions:
-
- >b) If KA9Q doesn't work with kernels > .97, then is there any way
- >to do IP over the modem? How do I tell TCP/IP that I'm using a
- >serial line and not an ethernet card?
-
- If you recompile the sources, the KA9Q for Linux package works with
- 99.2 doing SLIP/CSLIP over a modem line. (I just upgraded to 99.4 and
- haven't tested it yet.) I believe that I might have had to make some very
- minor changes to the sources to get them to compile under 99.2; but I don't
- recall any real difficulties.
-
- Bill Bogstad
-