Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Ray Wells wrote: I run KISS only EPROM's in 4 MFJ1270B's on my Linux system. I found the KISS only EPROM offered two advantages over a Native Mode EPROM that contained KISS. 1. The TNC never comes out of KISS mode unexpectedly. 2. The KISS only EPROM solved man

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Ray Wells
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: None of the developers have felt the need (so far) to have configurable files to set up a TNC for KISS/take it back out of KISS mode when starting/stopping interfaces. If they had the code would have been written by now. Mos

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The nice thing about those EPROMS is that they don't mysteriously > drop out of KISS mode unexpectedly. > Unfortunately KISS EPROM images are only available for TAPR TNC2s and > their many clones (MFJ, DRSI. Paccomm, Symek). I _think_ the PK-88's had a KI

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: None of the developers have felt the need (so far) to have configurable files to set up a TNC for KISS/take it back out of KISS mode when starting/stopping interfaces. If they had the code would have been written by now. Most people that run KIS

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Dan Brown wrote: > I'd sorta guess it just isn't a Creature which has been Feeped > yet, and also would guess it might also be something to be > documented in a clearer manner. That pretty much sums it up. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~arche

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Mark Miller wrote: > Is there a file that can be edited to configure the start and stop > parameters for the Serial Kiss TNC interface? I am using a Tracker2 > and would like to be able to bring this TNC in and out of Kiss > mode. The command to put this TNC in Kiss mode is K

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Mark Miller wrote: > Thanks. I wrote a Perl Script to get my Tracker2 out of KISS > mode. I sent C0 FF C0 by using \xC0\xFF\xC0. xastir/scripts/kiss-off.pl -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-09 Thread Dan Brown
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Mark Miller wrote: > Kyle, > > Thanks. I wrote a Perl Script to get my Tracker2 out of KISS > mode. I sent C0 FF C0 by using \xC0\xFF\xC0. As I find more often than not, when I'm thinking "hey wouldn't it be nice if xastir did..." there is actually already a script in the

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Miller
Kyle, Thanks. I wrote a Perl Script to get my Tracker2 out of KISS mode. I sent C0 FF C0 by using \xC0\xFF\xC0. All, What does XASTIR send to initialize a TNC into KISS mode? What does it send to turn KISS off? Is this configurable somewhere. 73, Mark N5RFX I can't answer your main

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-08 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
I can't answer your main question, but I can answer the secondary question :) echo FF > /dev/ttyS0 or without a newline: echo -n FF > /dev/ttyS0 or maybe you mean charactor FF which might be escaped \xFF On 10/7/06, Mark Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a file that can be edited to co

[Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-07 Thread Mark Miller
Is there a file that can be edited to configure the start and stop parameters for the Serial Kiss TNC interface? I am using a Tracker2 and would like to be able to bring this TNC in and out of Kiss mode. The command to put this TNC in Kiss mode is KISS ON, to bring it out of Kiss mode, all yo