[Xastir] OSX: Soundcard decode

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Luc Dore VA2KSH wrote:

> Thanks for the hint towards the soundmodem package.  I did download the
> 0.7 version and started digging around a little and doing a clean
> 'make' on it is going to be a little harder than planned on an OSX box.
>   The package uses mostly stuff that's availale such as gtk but does an
> include of a library called linux/ax25.h -- which does not exist
> anywhere for OSX.
>
> I'll try to find it from the debian of freebsd trees and try to port it.

That might get a bit tricky.  The Linux kernel has support for the
AX.25 protocol built-in.  What you want to do is instead use the
KISS features of the soundcard interface and skip the AX.25 kernel
networking stuff, as you don't have AX.25 kernel networking in OSX.

I think Dick, KC8OBZ, is using the soundcard driver on Solaris,
which is another OS that doesn't have AX.25 kernel networking.  He's
got it configured to use the KISS interface, then Xastir connects to
that.  Check out the Solaris mods in the code.  You might be able to
adapt that more easily to OSX.


> On Apr 19, 2004, at 11:28, Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:
>
> > A couple of months ago the same question was asked by someone else.
> > At that point I did some checking and I personlly think that it might
> > be possible to port the soundmodem userspace program from Tom Sailor
> > to MacOSX.  But I'm no programmer, so I have very little idea about
> > how to do it.
> >
> > Dick Reichenbach - KC8OBZ
>
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