[Xastir] Soundcard Modem For Idiots?

[William McKeehan]

THANK YOU FOR THIS LINK!

The link was not my problem, but by reading the web page, I was able to debug
and find my problem. Turns out it was a small problem with my axports file -
the callsign has a lenth limitation and I had one too many characters.

> Thanks so much for forwarding this back to the list - it's finally got
> me on the right path for getting the soundmodem working!
>
> I was also having the same problem with the "error with axports file"
> message after following the instructions...but I found something on this
> page that seems to have solved it:
> http://www.febo.com/packet/linux-ax25/ax25-config.html
>
> ---CUT HERE---
> There is one thing to watch out for with the new ax25 packages. If you
> install the ax25 stuff from Debian or RedHat packages, they will be
> installed in /usr/sbin with the config files in /etc/ax25. But... if you
> obtain the sources and build them yourself, the programs will be
> installed in /usr/local/sbin with the config files in
> /usr/local/etc/ax25. That can cause problems if the home-built programs
> need to read, for example, the axports file and are looking for it in
> /usr/local/etc/ax25 when it really lives in /etc/ax25.
>
> The workaround is simple, though it's not The Right Thing according to
> the filesystem standards: make /usr/local/etc/ax25 a symbolic link to
> /etc/ax25. That way, no matter which directory a program looks in for
> its configuration files, it will find the same ones. To do that, issue
> this command:
> ln -s /etc/ax25 /usr/local/etc/ax25
> ---CUT HERE---
>
> That's what was causing the problem for me on my Debian setup.
> Apparently xastir was looking to /usr/local/etc/ax25/axports and finding
> the default ports 1 and 2 in the sample.  I renamed /usr/local/etc/ax25
> to ax25.old and made a link as suggested...it now works!
>
> Now I just have to figure out how to tell if I'm getting audio to this
> thing for not and how to set the levels and all that fun sound related
> stuff :D
>
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> Jason Hitesman
> N8INJ
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