[Xastir] serial port error with serial GPS

[Jerry Chamberlin]

5 bit ascii usually 60 Baud. You know 500,00 times slower thand Cable Modem.
Most Xtra class hams could send faster Morse.


On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> Brigette?
> 
> Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> > I correct myself, I used to download it from there, It Was UNIV of Columbia,
> > 
> > ANyone for a Bardot link ?
> > 
> > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Univ of Oklahoma.
> >>Use over ascii text link to send binaries
> >>Last kow location Disney Land Future Center. 
> >>
> >>On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Brian D Heaton wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>How about how many remember Kermit?
> >>>
> >>>			THX/BDH
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:06, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>This is a test.  How many on this list remember what 'uucp' means/meant?
> >>>>
> >>>>gerry n5jxs
> >>>>
> >>>>Curt, WE7U wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Amanda K. Martino wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>I have Xastir compiled with ImageMagick support on a P3 machine running
> >>>>>>Linux Red Hat 9. I've tried using both serial TNC and serial GPS with
> >>>>>>Xastir. Serial TNC works just fine. Serial GPS, however, gives me an
> >>>>>>"Error opening Interface 0. Hard fail" when I try to start the interface.
> >>>>>>I did run the chmod 4555 /usr/local/bin/xastir command when I compiled
> >>>>>>Xastir, and my procedure for starting up Xastir is as follows:
> >>>>>>login to linux as user capstone
> >>>>>>su to root
> >>>>>>xastir & from a terminal window as root.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Once you've done the "chmod" command, it allows Xastir to gain root
> >>>>>priviledges when it needs to, such as when opening ports.  You don't
> >>>>>need to "su" in order to run Xastir, and in fact it's not
> >>>>>recommended because then when Xastir tries to drop priviledges when
> >>>>>it doesn't need them, you're still running as root.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I'd run Xastir as the "capstone" user.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>I don't see how it could be a permissions problem, but as I'm new to
> >>>>>>Xastir I don't have much to base that on except what I just described
> >>>>>>above. As mentioned before, serial TNC works perfectly fine. Does anyone
> >>>>>>have any suggestions as to what might be causing this? Thanks in advance
> >>>>>>for any help.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>If you do an "ls -l /dev/ttyS?" you'll see the permissions and
> >>>>>user/group for your serial devices.  You are probably using
> >>>>>/dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 for your ports, right?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>In your /etc/group file, add your "capstone" user to whatever group
> >>>>>the serial ports belong to.  On my system it's the "uucp" group.
> >>>>>Change the permissions on the serial devices to 660 if they're not
> >>>>>already.  Mine look like this:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  64 2003-10-02 13:45 /dev/ttyS0
> >>>>>crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  65 2003-10-02 13:45 /dev/ttyS1
> >>>>>crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  66 2003-10-02 13:45 /dev/ttyS2
> >>>>>crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  67 2003-10-02 13:45 /dev/ttyS3
> >>>>>
> >>>>>After that, you should be able to come in using the "uucp"
> >>>>>permissions as the "capstone" user, and run Xastir as the "capstone"
> >>>>>user as well.  Make sense?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Also make sure you have the case correct for the device name in the
> >>>>>Interface->Properties dialog for that interface.  You need a capital
> >>>>>'S'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>--
> >>>>>Curt, WE7U			    archer at eskimo dot com
> >>>>>Arlington, WA, USA		http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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