[Xastir] Xastir 1.8.5 + FreeBSD + D700 + Newbie

[Greg Eigsti]

> they're discussed in the "INSTALL" document.

Of course!  I read the wiki - that has to count for something.

Thanks for the help - it is working now!  The addition of my user to the
dialer/uucp group was not showing up when I executed the "id" command.  So I
rebooted and all was well with the world.  Following your dialer group
advice I removed myself from the uucp group (now am only a part of dialer
group) and all is good.

Thanks!
Greg



On 1/20/07 4:21 PM, "Tom Russo" <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 03:50:08PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <greg at eigsti.com> flavor, containing:
>> I am trying to get Xastir to use a serial TNC (D700) and am getting the
>> following error trying to open my serial port:
>> 
>> Interface Error! Error opening interface 2 Hard fail
>> 
>> My Xastir serial TNC parameters look like:
>> TNC port: /dev/cuad0
>> Port Settings: 9600 bps
>> Port Style: 8,N,1
>> Igate Options: Allow RF to Inet traffic ONLY
>> Path 1: WIDE1-1
>> Path 2: WIDE2-1
>> Igate -> RF path: WIDE2-1 (auto-generated by Xastir)
>> Using tnc-startup.d700 and tnc-stop.d700 (appropriately edited)
>> 
>> I can communicate with the D700 using the following cmd - I can both change
>> settings as well as display incoming RF packets...
>> 
>> sudo cu -l/dev/cuad0 -s9600
>> 
>> I am thinking that this is a permissions issue for /dev/cuad0 but am a bit
>> unsure about just chmod'ing it willy nilly.  Should I execute the following
>> chmod command to proceed?  I am familiar with chmod'ing files but not
>> devices - don't want to mess anything up!
>> 
>> chmod 4511 /dev/cuad0
> 
> There are a couple of approaches, they're discussed in the "INSTALL" document.
> 
> My approach (used on FreeBSD and Ubuntu) is to have a group for such things
> in /etc/group.  For example, "dialer" on free BSD and "dialout" on Ubuntu.
> This group is given permission to read and write the device.  Then add
> yourself
> to the group.
> 
> So, for example, there'd be a line in /etc/group like this:
> dialer:*:68:russo
> and /dev/cuaa0 (which is the BSD version of /dev/cuad0) has permissions:
> crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer  240, 128 Jan 14 22:46 /dev/cuaa0
> 
> (i.e., do:
>   chown :dialer /dev/cuaa0
>   chmod g+rw /dev/cuaa0
> on BSD, or something similar on your linux system)
> 
> There are other approaches, but I don't think the chmod you're suggesting is
> the one you want.
>