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Date:      Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:48:20 -0500
From:      dkelly@hiwaay.net
To:        "me <Michael A. Endsley>" <me@corecom.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ham radio programs? 
Message-ID:  <199709290148.UAA01072@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from "me <Michael A. Endsley>" <me@corecom.net>  of "Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:25:25 -0800." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970928152327.8471B-100000@MASTER.my.puter> 

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Michael A. Endsley writes:
>
> Is anybody running ham radio programs on FreeBSD?  I am looking for things
> like jnos/tnos, logging, etc. Thanks

TNOS (http://www.lantz.com) knows FreeBSD. I submitted several patches to
the author which found its way into the distribution. I was too busy
elsewhere when the beta of TNOS 2.30 was out, so its not a perfect clean
compile right out of the box. Almost... I was going to put together a
patch this afternoon, but didn't.

FreeBSD's slattach won't attach to a pty, last time I tried it. Something
to do with the pty not being as complete as a tty. Failed with in an 
ioctl for setting process group or some such. Linking TNOS's IP stack
to FreeBSD's becomes more difficult than it should. I got a PPP link
running once thru a pty. And didn't know how I did it afterwards to
repeat. A pair of hardware serial ports with a null modem cable works.

To get started with TNOS, subscribe to the mail lists at the above site.
Download the Linux binaries, and possibly the sources. To get a running
system you have to have the directory tree created by the Linux binary
distribution, or you have to figure it out yourself.

I haven't tried running the Linux binary of TNOS under FreeBSD. Until I
ditched my non-FPU NexGen, I didn't have a system capable of running
Linux emulation.

About the only thing special you need to compile TNOS is gmake. Get it
from ports or packages.

Lately I've been using kermit for packet radio.

73,
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
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