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VK7AX > LINHAM 03.06.08 09:17l 37 Lines 1427 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : VK7AX-0306QE
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Subj: Re: SCC Card Driver
Path: IZ3LSV<IK2XDE<F5GOV<CX2SA<ZS0MEE<VK4TRS<VK7AX
Sent: 080603/0719Z @:VK7AX.#ULV.TAS.AUS.OC #:46741 [Ulverstone] FBB7.00g $:VK7A
From: VK7AX@VK7AX.#ULV.TAS.AUS.OC
To : LINHAM@WW
From: "Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <lists@w1nr.net>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:25:53 -0400
To: Ray Wells <vk2tv@exemail.com.au>
CC: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
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> Mike,
>
> I'm compiling on Debian 4.0 but as you say, it shouldn't be relevant. The kernel source came from kernel.org.
>
> Just to be sure I wasn't fooling myself, with both 2.6.25.1 and 2.6.25.4 I deleted the unzipped source and unzipped again. For each source I ran make menuconfig. The ax25 options were not selected by default in 2.6.25.4 but they were in 2.6.25.1.
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> I haven't been able to go back into 2.6.25.4 to see if ISA was selected re the SCC problem but I'll do that probably today.
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> Ray vk2tv
>
The raw kernel from kernel.org has bare minimum enabled. You need to get a "config" file from your running system to enable all that the distro does by default. I have also found that there are usually a lot of other drivers that need to be enabled just to make it run at all.
Mike, W1NR
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