The AX.25 software is comprised of three components: the kernel source, the
network configuration tools and the utility programs.
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.
| 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. |
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
SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hams.
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: