On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Gary Huntress wrote: > First I configured soundmodem as MKISS. I started it and it created > interface sm0. I went into interface control and I think the right type is > "ax25 tnc". There is no device /dev/sm0 but since there is an interface sm0 > I just entered that for the device name. I got "hard fail" when I tried to > bring it up".
There's more to this form of setup than what you did. Look up the Linux AX.25 HOWTO document. > Then I realized (quite by accident) that if I configured soundmodem as KISS, > then I get an actual /dev/soundmodem0 device. So I selected "Serial KISS > TNC", and entered /dev/soundmodem0, but again got a hard failure. Yes, an alternate method but it doesn't use the kernel AX.25 drivers in this case. No matter if all you want is to connect Xastir to it. The missing piece here is to grant read/write privileges to the serial port, for the user or group that Xastir is running under. Alternately you can do "chmod 7455 /usr/local/bin/xastir" as root, which lets Xastir run as root when it needs to. Xastir backs off to normal user privileges when it doesn't. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
