[Xastir] Xastir and serial port issues

[Gerry Creager]

Fire up a copy of minicom and see if you can talk to the serial port as 
a 'regular' user.  If not, you can tell the serial port that you (as a 
regular user) can access it... We can help with all the bad ways to do 
that...

gerry


Jim Tolbert wrote:
> After a disk crash in a laptop, I replaced the hard disk, reloaded open 
> SUSE 10.2, rebuilt Xastir with all the options ( including GPSMAN), and 
> reloaded all the maps..  I connected a KAM TNC to the serial port and 
> selected Serial  TNC in the interface control.  I have tried a variety 
> of TNC port identifiers ( /dev/ttyS0, COM1, etc.) and tried 
> "tnc-startup.kam" as well as "tnc-startup.sys".  Checking the Incoming 
> data window when I turn the KAM on and off yields nothing.   I also 
> tried using a USB to serial converter with the same null result.
> 
> When I connect the laptop to the internet, I can see and plot aprs 
> stations.
> 
> Tomorrow, I will have access to a set of Garmin Rinos for the 
> afternoon.  I have 22 hours to get this going <grin>.
> 
> Is it immediately obvious where my error is?  Is there a way to confirm 
> that the serial port is functional?  Is there anything special about 
> connecting a Rino to the laptop that would increase the likelihood of 
> the system work?    Any other suggestions? 
> One of the other guys has the other laptop that is running Xastir ( from 
> a binary download running on VMWare).  Unfortunately, it was not 
> compiled with GPSMAN so the Rino options are not available.
> 
> Many thanks ............. jt
> 

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