[Xastir] HSP Cable Problem

[J. Lance Cotton]

Are you using the KPC3+ with its "extra" GPS port?

If so, then you need to select the "Serial TNC w/ GPS on AUX port" type 
instead of the HSP cable.

The HSP cable option is used when the GPS and TNC are each delegated access to 
the computer's serial port via some circuitry in the cable. The AUX port 
option is when the TNC does this internally.

-Lance KJ5O

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 19:10, Stephen West-Fisher wrote:
> Here I go again.
> Having sucessfully built a cable before, but had it quit working, I just
> decided to bite the bullet and buy a Kantronics cable. After work I
> quickly put the connector on for the GPS and hooked it up to my laptop.
> Something is not quite correct. Here is what's happening:
>
> GPS connection is fine, I see that the station is moving around a little
> in the station info box. Transmit is fine, just go lookup KQ4NO-6, and
> that's where I am.
>
> However, I'm not receiving any other stations. When I view incomming
> packet data, it is blank. The Rcv light is working on the TNC, and if I
> close xastir and start minicom, I see packets from the TNC.
>
> I may well have something misconfigured. I'm using the HSP setup option
> with 4800 8N1 in both xastir and minicom. I'm using the default
> tnc-startup.sys.
>
> This is Debian 3,0 (woody), and a KPC3 (not the plus). Do I need to set
> anything anywhere for the hardware control to work?
>
> Also, is there anyway for me to test the cable? I would have thought if
> the cable was the problem, the GPS side wouldn't work since the computer
> to TNC part was already put together.

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J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
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