Progress is being made. I started with a fresh copy of the latest image. I went through the getting started, learned a few things along the way and this is what I am getting now. I think this is much closer but, still scratching my head a bit.
results of AX.25-statusStatus for direwolf.service: RUNNING and ENABLED
Status for ax25dev.service: RUNNING and ENABLED
Status for ax25dev.path: RUNNING and ENABLED
Status for ax25-mheardd.service: RUNNING and ENABLED
Status for ax25d.service: RUNNING and ENABLED
AX.25 device: ax0 successfully configured with ip: 192.168.1.245
AX.25 device: ax1 successfully configured with ip: 192.168.1.246
Here are the results of ifconfigax0: flags=67<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING> mtu 255
inet 192.168.1.245 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ax25 N0CSM-10 txqueuelen 10 (AMPR AX.25)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
ax1: flags=67<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING> mtu 255
inet 192.168.1.246 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ax25 N0CSM-10 txqueuelen 10 (AMPR AX.25)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 5 bytes 20 (20.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.61 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::48a0:e6e2:f867:4eed prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether b8:27:eb:88:93:0f txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 573 bytes 70183 (68.5 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 138 bytes 19353 (18.8 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.59 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::85c7:f539:b08a:58a6 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether b8:27:eb:dd:c6:5a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 172 bytes 28669 (27.9 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 27 bytes 4402 (4.2 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
results of tail -f /var/log/rms.debug
Nov 5 16:13:35 draws rmsgw_aci[1493]: Channel: N0CSM-10 on udr0 is DOWN -- not updated
Nov 5 16:13:35 draws rmsgw_aci[1493]: Channel Stats: 1 read, 1 active, 1 down, 0 updated, 0 errors
Nov 5 16:13:37 draws rmsgw_aci[1493]: python script /usr/local/etc/rmsgw/updateversion.py failed, status 1
Nov 5 16:17:01 draws rmsgw_aci[2457]: N0CSM-10 - Linux RMS Gateway ACI 2.5.1 Sep 19 2019 (DM26ad)
Nov 5 16:17:01 draws rmsgw_aci[2457]: Channel: N0CSM-10 on udr0 (145050000 Hz, mode 0)
Nov 5 16:17:01 draws rmsgw_aci[2457]: /usr/local/bin/rmschanstat ax25 udr0 N0CSM-10 reports unavailable
Nov 5 16:17:01 draws rmsgw_aci[2457]: Channel: N0CSM-10 on udr0 is DOWN -- not updated
Nov 5 16:17:01 draws rmsgw_aci[2457]: Channel Stats: 1 read, 1 active, 1 down, 0 updated, 0 errors
Nov 5 16:17:02 draws rmsgw_aci[2457]: python script /usr/local/etc/rmsgw/updateversion.py failed, status 1