[Xastir] How to use xastir and kenwood TH-D7E

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Jason Winningham wrote:

>
> On Mar 13, 2005, at 3:56 AM, Antonio Esposito wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > There is someone using Linux Xastir and Kenwood TH-D7E? How I can
> > configure
> > it? Because I've everytime an Hard error from Xastir.
>
> Make sure you have the latest tnc-startup file
> /usr/local/share/xastir/config/tnc-startup.thd7 .  An old version had
> an error that changed the baud rate between the computer and the radio
> to 1200, which means you could connect long enough to change the baud
> rate to an incorrect setting and prevent any further communication. :(
>
> If /usr/local/share/xastir/config/tnc-startup.thd7 has a line that says
> "HBAUD 1200", either comment out that line (by inserting a # at the
> beginning of the line), or just get the new version of tnc-startup.thd7
> and put it in /usr/local/share/xastir/config/ .
>
> If you installed an old version of xastir, but upgraded to a new
> version, you probably still have the old config file.
>
> I don't know when the config file changed, so I can;t help you with
> specific version numbers.

"cvs log config/tnc-startup.thd7 | less" should let you know when it
was changed and why.  One of the nice things about CVS.

Another possibility is that you haven't set up your permissions for
the serial port so that your login has read/write access to it.
There are several ways to do this:

*) Add the user to the group that has access to the port.

*) Give Xastir SUID root priviledges so that it runs as root when it
   needs to ("chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir").

*) Change the owner of the port to that user (not recommended).

*) Give all users read/write access to the port (not recommended).

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