[Xastir] D700 Connection

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote:

> I connect my laptop (Mac OS X) running Xastir to my D700 using a Keyspan
> serial/USB adapter (cu.USA19H1a2P1.1). I can see the adapter in terminal when
> I do ls /dev so I know I have the correct id for it. But now when I select
> that connection in the interface control nothing happens, it doesn't even
> blink.

> If all that seems unlikely to be the problem, does someone else have an idea
> what could be causing it?

It's likely that Xastir isn't able to open it.  Could be
permissions, could be a different interface being used now.

Try as root:

    chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir

Then exit from the root user and run Xastir again.  The above
command should allow Xastir to become root when it needs to, which
it will try when it opens a serial port.  If that gets the port
working then just remember to do that each time after you do a fresh
"make install" of Xastir.

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