[Xastir-Dev] Less brave testers wanted. :-)
Tom Young
tom at twyoung.com
Sat Mar 29 10:12:07 EST 2003
Good news! I was able to exit KISS mode by editting the TNC startup
config file with
a line near the beginning containing:
<ALT>192<ALT>255<ALT>192
Cheers,
-Tom, KD1UL
"Curt Mills, WE7U" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Tom Young wrote:
>
> > Success!
>
> Great!
>
> > to enter KISS mode. I did this in Minicom and was able to see the kind
> > of packets you describe (fortunately, wo/screen commands).
>
> Excellent. I love it when a plan comes together...
>
> > 1) How to get the TNC out of KISS mode, without doing a hard reset.
> > Solved via Google: enter
> > <ALT>192
> > <ALT>255
> > <ALT>192
> > ENTER
> > to return to TERMINAL mode.
> > (It would be nice if Xastir did this when leaving the KISS
> > interface.)
>
> That's been requested before. Most of us who run in KISS mode
> _never_ come out of it for any reason, so the actual utility of
> being able to make Xastir do that is minimal.
>
> > 2) How to tell if I'm RELAYing any packets. Will Xastir substitute my
> > callsign when it digipeats?
>
> I believe Xastir should do that, yes.
>
> > The 'RELAY Digipeat' button is pressed
> > in the Configure
> > KISS TNC dialog and I can xmit manually. I have not noticed any
> > digipeating
> > but then I have not seen any packets that need me to RELAY. I'll
> > let
> > it run tonight and check the log tomorrow. DIGIPEAT is ON in the
> > TNC, but
> > I don't know if this is correct, unnecessary, or what in KISS mode.
>
> "Digipeat on" in terms of a TNC command has no effect in KISS mode.
> In fact, none of your TNC commands have any effect while in KISS
> mode.
>
> --
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