[Xastir] Stuck

[Steve Friis]

Ken Bessler wrote:

> Actually, my GPS is /dev/ttyUSB0 and dmesg reports the serial converter
> as /dev/ttyUSB1. I noticed soundmodemconfig didn't have an entry for that
> but the prog allowed me to write it in.
> 
> Here's my soundmodem start up script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # This will launch soundmodem and change
> # the permissions on/dev/soundmodem0
> soundmodem &
> sleep 1
> chmod 666 /dev/soundmodem0
> 
> I call the script with this command:
> 
> sudo ./start-tnc.sh
> 
> I also (as root) just tried this command (a shot in the dark):
> 
> chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB1
> 
> The error I get with the start-tnc.sh script is:
> 
>  Device "/dev/ttyUSB1" neither parport nor serport
> sm[14360]: cannot start PTT output
> 
> I'm pretty new at this ubuntu linux stuff - am I missing something?
> 
> Ken KG0WX
> 
> 

OK. Did you install soundmodem via a precompiled source or did you build 
it from source? I have heard that some of the precompiled sources don't 
work so good on some systems.



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Steve Friis
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