[Xastir] Xastir and soundmodem?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:

> On my Solaris machine, the soundmodem program generates a KISS device,
> which is now directly supported by XASTIR.  So I just start soundmodem,
> and tell xastir that the KISS TNC is on /dev/soundmodem0.

That's one of the funny parts about this open-source stuff:  You
implement/fix one thing, and somebody doing something that you
thought was totally unrelated tells you it works great for their
application!

I wasn't even thinking about soundmodem stuff when I was working on
the KISS support.  I thought soundmodem only created AX.25 kernel
networking ports.  I now know different.

The bug report from IBM S390 mainframe's running Debian Linux took
me by surprise.  I didn't know that Xastir would compile/run on such
a machine.


> Once you compile the program, I think enabling the KISS stream is one of
> the options under the soundmodemconfig program.  (it's default enabled
> ON  for me, but I don't know linux yet)

I just talked to Olivier about this:  Soundmodem can run in MKISS or
KISS mode.  MKISS creates AX.25 ports.  KISS creates a
/dev/soundmodem0 port just like you have.  Very cool!  That means
that someone wanting to run only Xastir with SoundModem can use that
technique to avoid the AX.25 configuration, which in my mind has
always been a pain to get right.

If you want to run multiple programs against a port simultaneously
then I think you still have to go the AX.25 kernel port route.

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