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rename from Documentation/networking/6pack.txt
rename to Documentation/networking/6pack.rst
@@ -1,27 +1,36 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==============
+6pack Protocol
+==============
+
This is the 6pack-mini-HOWTO, written by
Andreas Könsgen DG3KQ
-Internet: ajk@comnets.uni-bremen.de
-AMPR-net: dg3kq@db0pra.ampr.org
-AX.25: dg3kq@db0ach.#nrw.deu.eu
+
+:Internet: ajk@comnets.uni-bremen.de
+:AMPR-net: dg3kq@db0pra.ampr.org
+:AX.25: dg3kq@db0ach.#nrw.deu.eu
Last update: April 7, 1998
1. What is 6pack, and what are the advantages to KISS?
+======================================================
6pack is a transmission protocol for data exchange between the PC and
the TNC over a serial line. It can be used as an alternative to KISS.
6pack has two major advantages:
+
- The PC is given full control over the radio
channel. Special control data is exchanged between the PC and the TNC so
that the PC knows at any time if the TNC is receiving data, if a TNC
buffer underrun or overrun has occurred, if the PTT is
set and so on. This control data is processed at a higher priority than
normal data, so a data stream can be interrupted at any time to issue an
- important event. This helps to improve the channel access and timing
- algorithms as everything is computed in the PC. It would even be possible
- to experiment with something completely different from the known CSMA and
+ important event. This helps to improve the channel access and timing
+ algorithms as everything is computed in the PC. It would even be possible
+ to experiment with something completely different from the known CSMA and
DAMA channel access methods.
This kind of real-time control is especially important to supply several
TNCs that are connected between each other and the PC by a daisy chain
@@ -36,6 +45,7 @@ More details about 6pack are described in the file 6pack.ps that is located
in the doc directory of the AX.25 utilities package.
2. Who has developed the 6pack protocol?
+========================================
The 6pack protocol has been developed by Ekki Plicht DF4OR, Henning Rech
DF9IC and Gunter Jost DK7WJ. A driver for 6pack, written by Gunter Jost and
@@ -44,12 +54,14 @@ They have also written a firmware for TNCs to perform the 6pack
protocol (see section 4 below).
3. Where can I get the latest version of 6pack for LinuX?
+=========================================================
At the moment, the 6pack stuff can obtained via anonymous ftp from
db0bm.automation.fh-aachen.de. In the directory /incoming/dg3kq,
there is a file named 6pack.tgz.
4. Preparing the TNC for 6pack operation
+========================================
To be able to use 6pack, a special firmware for the TNC is needed. The EPROM
of a newly bought TNC does not contain 6pack, so you will have to
@@ -75,12 +87,14 @@ and the status LED are lit for about a second if the firmware initialises
the TNC correctly.
5. Building and installing the 6pack driver
+===========================================
The driver has been tested with kernel version 2.1.90. Use with older
kernels may lead to a compilation error because the interface to a kernel
function has been changed in the 2.1.8x kernels.
How to turn on 6pack support:
+=============================
- In the linux kernel configuration program, select the code maturity level
options menu and turn on the prompting for development drivers.
@@ -94,27 +108,28 @@ To use the driver, the kissattach program delivered with the AX.25 utilities
has to be modified.
- Do a cd to the directory that holds the kissattach sources. Edit the
- kissattach.c file. At the top, insert the following lines:
+ kissattach.c file. At the top, insert the following lines::
- #ifndef N_6PACK
- #define N_6PACK (N_AX25+1)
- #endif
+ #ifndef N_6PACK
+ #define N_6PACK (N_AX25+1)
+ #endif
- Then find the line
-
- int disc = N_AX25;
+ Then find the line:
+
+ int disc = N_AX25;
and replace N_AX25 by N_6PACK.
- Recompile kissattach. Rename it to spattach to avoid confusions.
Installing the driver:
+----------------------
-- Do an insmod 6pack. Look at your /var/log/messages file to check if the
+- Do an insmod 6pack. Look at your /var/log/messages file to check if the
module has printed its initialization message.
- Do a spattach as you would launch kissattach when starting a KISS port.
- Check if the kernel prints the message '6pack: TNC found'.
+ Check if the kernel prints the message '6pack: TNC found'.
- From here, everything should work as if you were setting up a KISS port.
The only difference is that the network device that represents
@@ -138,6 +153,7 @@ from the PC to the TNC over the serial line, the status LED if data is
sent to the PC.
6. Known problems
+=================
When testing the driver with 2.0.3x kernels and
operating with data rates on the radio channel of 9600 Baud or higher,
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Contents:
tls-offload
nfc
6lowpan
+ 6pack
.. only:: subproject and html
- add SPDX header; - use title markups; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> --- .../networking/{6pack.txt => 6pack.rst} | 46 +++++++++++++------ Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) rename Documentation/networking/{6pack.txt => 6pack.rst} (90%)