On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Kristoff Bonne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > For a ubuntu netbook (acer aspire one), I bought a cheap serial-to-USB stick > (company = "digitus", lsusb says this: "Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0403:6001 > Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC").
lucky you. FTDI is, in my experience, the best one available. > It shows itself as "/dev/ttyUSB0" on my box (ubuntu 10.06 netbook release). > > > However, I have a strange problem. > - When I use minicom to connect to my TNC2 using that USB device, all works > OK "device = /dev/ttyUSB0, setting = 9600/7/E/1" You sure about that? 7 e 1? It's usually 8 n 1. (that's 7 data bits, even parity, one stop bit and 8 data bits, no parity, one stop bit respectively). > - However, when I try to use it with Xastir I get all kinds of rubbish on > the input. > > The packets input gives this: > 1:TNC-> 5SxECH= ws OFF > 1:TNC-> c5d:BA > 1:TNC-> ON > 1:TNC-> ZWx>PEVERYjLxc5d:? ad > 1:TNC-> c5d:ONen\KY>APUI+rJmN I seriously suspect that 7e1 is wrong and you need 8n1. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
