[App_rpt-users] What to do with new computers

[Doug Crompton]

What are the compatibility issues?  The current acid with dahdi will work on both Debian and ubuntu. On Ubuntu it requires a kernel recompile to include the OSS kernel stuff.

What is so different at the user level? Any changes should be masked by the OS.

Have you tried to compile acid/dahdi on a UEFI Ubuntu or Debian system? 

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


From: andy at ple.org
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:10:54 -0500
To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
Subject: [App_rpt-users] What to do with new computers

AS we get further and further away from the availability of older hardware I wonder what we are going to do soon as some of the hardware ages out and has to be replaced? I know what you just thought: No problem I’ll just wander off to the next PC shop and buy a cheap PC, and be done, or if you more technically inclined, you can even build your new system. 
BUT, you will very soon discover that new motherboards with UEFI BIOS are becoming more and more commonplace, to the point that older MB with “standard old” BIOS are no longer to be had. And that spells problems! Neither ACID nor XIPPR installs on a UEFI bios’ed system and even the “compatibility mode of many bioses” will give you more than its share of headaches. 
There are a few Linux distros that are perfectly capable of being installed and working on a UEFI bios MB, but then the problem is how to get app_rpt working?
I have e.g. a MB here that I tried all the tricks I know of to get one of the stone aged distributions to work on and noting works. Whereas download a new Ubuntu 14.04 with UEFI support and everything works like a charm, at least as far as the OS is concerned. 
Does anybody have a procedure at hand to get app_rpt working on a newer system or do I really have to start reading code, or are the power that be working on a solution? Long term if Allstar does not want to become obsolete that will be about the only solution, but what can we do short term?

--Andreas Pleschutznig, Cell: (832) 633-7817, Sent: MacBook KA5PLE, Allstar: 29841, Echolonk: 884823



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