[Xastir] Serial port

[kd7nm]

This sounds like it might be that your user isn't on the
list accepted users for serial ports.  You might need to add
your user login account to that group.  Check the following:

bob at colossus:/> ls -l /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw----  1 root uucp 4, 64 2006-10-23 16:46 /dev/ttyS0
bob at colossus:/>

This is the directory command to check permissions on ttyS0,
and if you read across, you see that the owner is "root",
and the group is "uucp".  To enable xastir to work when I'm
logged in with my user account "bob", I had to go into my
users and groups manager, and insure that the "bob" account
was a  member of the "uucp" group.  

I use SuSE Linux v10.0, and with that Linux distribution,
that's a feature of the YaST system management tool.  I
suspect that if my system hadn't auto-archived a bunch of
stuff, that I'd find out what Linux distribution you're
using, though I probably still don't know where to find an
application to do what YaST does for me.  So - take a look
in /etc/group and find the group entry that matches the
group entry in your /dev/ttyS0 directory listing, and add
your login user account to it - assuming it's not already
there.  With any luck, it's that simple!

73, Bob, KD7NM

----- Original Message Follows -----
From: "Robbie, wa9inf" <mwrobertson at comcast.net>
To: xastir at xastir.org
Subject: [Xastir] Serial port
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:49:09 -0500

>Well, here is a follow up to my MFJ serial tnc problem...
>
>I have validated that the hardware is working by using
>minicom on both  ttyS0 and ttyS1 at 9600,8,n,1  All the
>144.390 packets are decoded..
>
>Now that leaves me with an Xastir problem I guess?? I can
>not make  either ports go "up" in the Interface Control
>screen, :-(
>
>Is there something I failed to do in Xastir while I was
>installing it?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Robbie
>
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