<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The AX.25/NET/ROM/ROSE software components</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Amateur Radio AX.25 HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="The Packet Radio Protocols and Linux" HREF="x61.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Installing the AX.25/NET/ROM/ROSE software" HREF="x144.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux Amateur Radio AX.25 HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x61.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x144.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN94" >3. The AX.25/NET/ROM/ROSE software components</A ></H1 ><P >The AX.25 software is comprised of three components: the kernel source, the network configuration tools and the utility programs.</P ><P >AX.25 support in the Linux kernel has been fairly stable since the 2.2 series of kernel versions. This document assumes you are using the most recent kernel, which as the time of writing was 2.4.9.</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >Software versions listed in this document were the latest at the time of writing, but are subject to change. Check for newer versions when downloading them.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN100" >3.1. Finding the kernel, tools and utility packages</A ></H2 ><DIV CLASS="SECT3" ><H3 CLASS="SECT3" ><A NAME="AEN102" >3.1.1. The kernel source</A ></H3 ><P >The kernel source can be found at <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >www.kernel.org</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >ftp.kernel.org</TT >. For the 2.4.9 kernel it would be downloaded from <A HREF="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.9.tar.gz" TARGET="_top" >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.9.tar.gz</A >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT3" ><H3 CLASS="SECT3" ><A NAME="AEN108" >3.1.2. The network tools</A ></H3 ><P >The latest release of the standard Linux network tools support AX.25 and NET/ROM and can be found at <A HREF="http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools" TARGET="_top" >http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools</A >.</P ><P >The latest ipchains package can be found at <A HREF="http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ipchains/" TARGET="_top" >http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ipchains</A >.</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >It is usually not necessary to download and install these as any recent Linux distribution should include them.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT3" ><H3 CLASS="SECT3" ><A NAME="AEN116" >3.1.3. The AX.25 utilities</A ></H3 ><P >The old ax25-utils used with the 2.0 and 2.1 kernels is now obsolete and has been replaced with new packages hosted on <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net" TARGET="_top" >SourceForge</A > at <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hams" TARGET="_top" >http://sourceforge.net/projects/hams</A >.</P ><P >The software is distributed as three packages: the AX.25 library, tools, and applications. At the time of writing the most recent versions were the following:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/libax25-0.0.7.tar.gz" TARGET="_top" >ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/libax25-0.0.7.tar.gz</A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/ax25-tools-0.0.6.tar.gz" TARGET="_top" >ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/ax25-tools-0.0.6.tar.gz</A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/ax25-apps-0.0.4.tar.gz" TARGET="_top" >ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/ax25-apps-0.0.4.tar.gz</A ></P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT3" ><H3 CLASS="SECT3" ><A NAME="AEN132" >3.1.4. The APRS utilities</A ></H3 ><P >If you want to use APRS you can download <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/aprsd/" TARGET="_top" >aprsd</A > and <A HREF="http://www.users.cloud9.net/~alan/ham/aprs/" TARGET="_top" >aprsdigi</A >: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/aprsd/aprsd-2.1.4.tar.gz" TARGET="_top" >http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/aprsd/aprsd-2.1.4.tar.gz</A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://www.users.cloud9.net/~alan/ham/aprs/aprsdigi-2.0-pre3.tar.gz" TARGET="_top" >http://www.users.cloud9.net/~alan/ham/aprs/aprsdigi-2.0-pre3.tar.gz</A ></P ></LI ></UL > </P ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x61.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x144.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >The Packet Radio Protocols and Linux</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Installing the AX.25/NET/ROM/ROSE software</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >