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

[Andreas Junge, N6NU]

My understanding is that GPS pass-through is supported (CTRL-E ???)on the
D700/D7. Has anybody got it to work?

73, Andreas, N6NU

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org]On
> Behalf Of Curt, WE7U
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:34 AM
> To: Jason Winningham
> Cc: anespo1 at virgilio.it; xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] How to use xastir and kenwood TH-D7E
>
>
> 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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