[Xastir] Serial port

[Tate - kc7zru]

Robbie - try this:

su <root password required>
chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir
exit <back to normal user>

This is covered and explained near the end of the Fedora HowTo on the wiki.
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Fedora

At the end of the section titled:" Get and compile Xastir from CVS"

Note, I believe this 'fix' will work for other distros as well.

Well, assuming this works for you - let us know, k?

73

kd7nm wrote:
> 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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