[Xastir] Stuck

[Steve Friis]

Ken Bessler wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:57:17 -0600
>> From: wm5z at comcast.net
>> To: xastir at xastir.org
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Stuck
>>
>> Ken Bessler wrote:
>>> I did all that work to get Xastir to run, now I tried to set up soundmodem
>>> to PTT and it won't recognize my HL-340 USB to serial port adapter!
>>>
>>> This is very frustrating - I have no com ports or parallel ports on my
>>> Dell 1501 laptop. I need to get soundmodem to command my adapter
>>> to pull the right pins high so my ptt interface will key my mobile rig.
>>>
>>> Help?
>>>
>>>
>>> _________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>> Do you have it set up as /dev/ttyUSB0? Do you have permissions to use
>> that port with sndmodem? These are what I would check.
>>
>> --
>> Steve Friis
> 
> 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
> 
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Another thing, read this article. 
<http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Soundmodem>

-- 
Steve Friis
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