[Xastir] IBM Thinkpads and Xastir-Problems and fixes

Sun Jan 25 20:54:31 EST 2004

check permissions on /dev/stty0 especially if you are running not as root
I had to tweak mine long time ago 


On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Bob Poirier wrote:
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Curt Mills" <archer at eskimo.com>
> To: "Bob Poirier" <poirier at wyoming.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:37 PM
> Subject: Re: where's my tnc?? (fwd)
> 
> 
> > 
> > Forwarding what I sent to you before.  Had to wait until I was at
> > home to look through my archives.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> >   Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
> > Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
> > The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:55:28 -0800 (PST)
> > From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
> > To: Bob Poirier <poirier at wyoming.com>
> > Cc: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
> > Subject: Re: where's my tnc??
> > 
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Bob Poirier wrote:
> > 
> > > My wife thinks she's a widow.  I have been fighting installing
> > > Mandrake 9.2 on a Thinkpad 380XD laptop along with Xastir for the
> > > better part of two months.  Everything is finally working fine
> > > with the exception of my Crystal sound chip (Festival is not
> > > compiled). I'm not too concerned about this, but what is driving
> > > me nuts is I can't seem to get Xastir to "talk" to my KPC-3+. I'm
> > > running 1.2.0 compiled from the tarball.  Linux stty command for
> > > ttyS0 shows the port is there and active with the correct IO and
> > > IRQ.  Xastir shows /dev/ttyS0 as "up" but nothing happens when I
> > > try to "transmit now".  I originally compiled xastir without the
> > > tnc connected so I tried it again with it on the port, still no
> > > luck.  I noted the "tnc-startup.sys" is configured default for a
> > > kantronics TNC so I have not modified it.  Obviously, either I am
> > > missing something simple or even though Linux says ttyS0 is there,
> > > it really isn't. Setserial does show it as active as well along
> > > with the UART.
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I am so close I can taste
> > > it.
> > 
> > Well, first of all I'd skip 1.2.0 and go directly to one of the
> > January 2004 development releases.  The Jan 15th one would be a good
> > one.
> > 
> > As far as the Kantronics TNC setup, you should probably use the
> > tnc-startup.kpc3 file instead of the default.  There may be
> > additional commands in there that are messing you up, or ones that
> > you're missing.  The kpc3 file should give you the specific commands
> > for the kpc3 and kpc3+ TNC's.
> > 
> > What is not working with the TNC, transmit, receive, or both?  Have
> > you tried talking to that port with Minicom?  That would be my first
> > step.
> > 
> > If you open the View->Incoming Data window in Xastir, are you seeing
> > anything?  Seeing two lines per packet, or just one.  If two lines,
> > you need to mess with the HEADERLN command or similar in the TNC.
> > 
> > I assume you've already created a serial TNC or serial KISS TNC
> > interface and enabled it, setting the baud rate and such correctly.
> > 
> > If it is just transmit, you need to set transmit enabled for each
> > interface you wish to transmit on, and set the global transmit
> > enable on the Interface menu.  If either is off, you won't transmit.
> > 
> > Are you running the TNC in KISS mode or serial mode?  I run all my
> > stuff in KISS mode, either with the AX.25 kernel networking, or with
> > the serial KISS TNC interface.  The former allows me to share a TNC
> > among several apps.
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Curt, WE7U     archer at eskimo dot com
> > Arlington, WA, USA http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> > "Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
> > "Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
> > "The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Bob Poirier wrote:
> 
> > Thinkpads are a different breed.  I found out after your "use
> > minicom" advice that my infrared virtual devices were still loaded
> > and the resulting Com 1 problem was due to IBM infrared defaulting
> > to that port.  The fix was to boot into Windows and use the IBM
> > Thinkpad utility and System Configuration to completely rid the
> > computer of any infrared devices.  Tpctl would probably also do
> > this under Linux although I wasn't able to get it working
> > properly.  My advice to Thinkpad owners is to keep a minimal
> > Windows partition with the IBM config utilities on it.
> >
> > I also  found out that CVS bootstrap.sh wouldn't work properly
> > until I  added RedHat's RPM, ac-archive.  Mandrake 9.2 doesn't
> > provide it.  Apparently autoconfig  (at least Mandrake's version
> > of 2.5.3) requires the additional header files that ac-archive
> > provides.  Also noted that Mandrake's version of ImageMagick
> > didn't work either.  I compiled it from source from the
> > ImageMagick web site.  Their RPM for Festival works fine.
> >
> > After hours of fighting Linux configuration problems and the like,
> > Xastir 1.2.1 is working fine.  Thanks for your help with my many
> > questions. I have joined the Xastir-dev mailing lists, so any
> > future queries will probably be easier to solve.
> 
> You should send that summary to the xastir list, so that it gets
> into the archive and might help others.  If some of them are common
> problems, they might make it into the FAQ at some point as well.
> 
> Glad you got it going!
> 
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com
> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
>   Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
> Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
> The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
> 
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