[Xastir] Xastir and serial port issues

[Gerry Creager]

Jim,

my first thought is that the Kam is in KISS mode.  Now we need someone 
who's Kam savvy to tell you how to tell minicom to get you out... And 
then how to get back in.  An alternative might be to fire off the KISS 
script and see if it then talks to the Kam.

gerry

Jim Tolbert wrote:
> Many thanx, Gerry....  Minicom shows "stuff" coming through at 4800 
> baud..... The guy that lent the KAM to me said that it was header info.  
> Do you think that it should be ASCII?  I get nothing at 2400 or 9600 baud.
> 
> Does minicom set the parameters of the port permanently or only when 
> minicom is running?
> 
> Also, running GPSMan allows setting a number of parameters, but not the 
> interface speed or configuration.   Does XASTIR need to have an 
> interface selected to communicate with the Rinos and if so, which one?
> 
> Many thanx.............. jt
> 
> Gerry Creager wrote:
>> 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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