[Xastir] Xastir on Mepis - ttyS0 hard fail

[J. Lance Cotton]

Gale Wilkinson wrote:
> I have installed Xastir 1.3 on Mepis and have only one problem.  When I
> try to start a serial-tnc interface on ttyS0 I am getting a Hard Fail
> error.  I have done the usual things - did the chmod 4555 on
> /usr/local/bin/xastir, verified that the ttys*'s are all in the root
> owwner/group, etc.  However, even running as root I still get the same
> error.  I suspect that it is something with the Mepis config as I am
> running the same version of Xastir on my other box under RH 9 and it is
> working fine after  going through the same setup process.  Any idea's?

Are you calling it /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttys0 ? Note that usually the "S" is 
capital in the device name for the serial port.

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