Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-12 Thread Keith Kaiser
There is no indication at all in the View Incoming Data that it sees the d700, the lights at the bottom of the screen are red indicating an interface is set up for that channel but nothing happens when I attempt to start the d700 dialog. At this point I'm still thinking it does not see

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: There is no indication at all in the View Incoming Data that it sees the d700, the lights at the bottom of the screen are red indicating an interface is set up for that channel but nothing happens when I attempt to start the d700 dialog. Xastir is

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: That's clear... thanks for the explanation. Guess I better go to bed, this problem will still be here in the morning, and I'm getting tired of sitting in my car in the garage. LOL Thanks for the help tonight guys, if you get a brain storm be sure to

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Here is my last build of Xastir, maybe something will leap out at you guys. Please don't send anything but ASCII text files. It takes me much more effort to read them. I don't deal with Microsoft proprietary format files generally at work or at home.

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Sorry about the RTF I had meant to convert it to plain text and I forgot. I'm a Mac guy, will dabble in Unix and do my best to stay away from Windblows as much as possible, so I understand your comment. Which means _you're_ a Unix guy now too... :-)

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Keith Kaiser
I sure liked the sound of this idea, so I renamed, and rebuilt all my preferences, re-added the interface items, and took the laptop out to the garage but nope it still didn't see the .d700 file to activate it. I do have a number of internet types set up, first.aprs.net,

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I sure liked the sound of this idea, so I renamed, and rebuilt all my preferences, re-added the interface items, and took the laptop out to the garage but nope it still didn't see the .d700 file to activate it. Xastir wasn't able to open the TNC

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Jason KG4WSV
there's no point in connecting to more than one aprs.net or aprs2.net server (core or tier 2) as they all have the same data stream - connecting to more than one is a waste of cpu time and bandwidth for all parties involved. it is recommended to connect to rotate.aprs.net instead of a specific

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Keith Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that rotate.aprs.net is the default, but when I leave that one in there only, nothing seems to happen. that _could_ be another indication you have a network problem. rotate.aprs.net just returns one of first, second,

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Keith Kaiser
I reinstalled rotate, and told it to start, and to my astonishment it started. I'll stop all the others and leave just this one for now and see how it works. Thanks for getting me to revisit this. On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Keith

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Gerry Creager
Speaking of which, first is going down shortly for emergency maintenance. gerry Keith Kaiser wrote: I reinstalled rotate, and told it to start, and to my astonishment it started. I'll stop all the others and leave just this one for now and see how it works. Thanks for getting me to revisit

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread James Ewen
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Jason KG4WSV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's no point in connecting to more than one aprs.net or aprs2.net server (core or tier 2) Sure there is... you can set up multiple filters, and pick what you want out of the stream I can connect to one server with a

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Alex Carver
--- James Ewen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can connect to one server with a radius around my house, and to another one with a radius around another area I'd like to watch. Unless I can ask for multiple areas all from one server... I've never tried that... can I ask for radius around 2

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-10 Thread Keith Kaiser
Here is my last build of Xastir, maybe something will leap out at you guys. It's a simple txt file... On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: This is a weird one guys. I did ls -lad /dev/lock the result is; drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68

[Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Keith Kaiser
A couple of weeks ago I asked this question and thanks to all the experts out there I got over the problem, but now I have it again. I connect my laptop (Mac OS X) running Xastir to my D700 using a Keyspan serial/USB adapter (cu.USA19H1a2P1.1). I can see the adapter in terminal when I do

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I connect my laptop (Mac OS X) running Xastir to my D700 using a Keyspan serial/USB adapter (cu.USA19H1a2P1.1). I can see the adapter in terminal when I do ls /dev so I know I have the correct id for it. But now when I select that connection in the

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I connect my laptop (Mac OS X) running Xastir to my D700 using a Keyspan serial/USB adapter (cu.USA19H1a2P1.1). I can see the adapter in terminal when I do ls /dev so I know I

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Keith Kaiser
I did the chmod, I even did a ./configure then a make and a sudo make install then the chmod but it still didn't work. There is no directory under var called lock, should I create an empty one? H, we need another idea. On Apr 9, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Wed, Apr 9,

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I did the chmod, I even did a ./configure then a make and a sudo make install then the chmod but it still didn't work. There is no directory under var called lock, should I create an empty one? Yea, give that a shot. Create it as root: cd /var

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Keith Kaiser
Done drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 lock Still a no-go. On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I did the chmod, I even did a ./configure then a make and a sudo make install then the chmod but it still didn't work. There

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Done drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 lock Still a no-go. Are you getting a file created there that looks something like this? -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 23 2008-04-05 18:04 LCK..ttyUSB0 The file above is what I have on my

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Keith Kaiser
No, the lock file is empty. H! Your on to something now, but what? On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Done drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 lock Still a no-go. Are you getting a file created there that looks

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: No, the lock file is empty. H! Your on to something now, but what? If that file is not created, that means that Xastir is not opening the device. Whether it's a permission problem or the USB device has switched names on you, I cannot say. Look at

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Keith Kaiser
This is the device name, cut out of the terminal window; cu.USA19H1a2P1.1 which is what I'm using. This goes back to my original thought that it wasn't seeing the tnc-startup.d700 script. Which is located in; /usr/local/share/xastir/tnc-startup.d700 but I just noticed, its permissions are

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: This is the device name, cut out of the terminal window; cu.USA19H1a2P1.1 which is what I'm using. This goes back to my original thought that it wasn't seeing the tnc-startup.d700 script. Which is located in; /usr/local/share/xastir/tnc-startup.d700

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Keith Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: t I just noticed, its permissions are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc-startup.d700 don't they have to be executable? no, but they have to be writable. i don't have a 232/usb device to check, but i

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Keith Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: t I just noticed, its permissions are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc-startup.d700 don't they have to be executable? no, but they have to be writable.

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Keith Kaiser
This is a weird one guys. I did ls -lad /dev/lock the result is; drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 /var/lock Which is a little different than yours, I have a - where you have an x in the 6th position. What does that mean? P.S. I've been doing sudo thanks. On Apr 9, 2008, at

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: This is a weird one guys. I did ls -lad /dev/lock the result is; drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 /var/lock Which is a little different than yours, I have a - where you have an x in the 6th position. What does that mean? Separate it out