[Xastir] Xastir with TNC-X

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:15:42PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <duffy at wb8nut.com> flavor, containing:
> Hopefully someone out there has set this up and can step me through the 
> process.
> 
> I am using Ubuntu. I have a TNC-X (KISS TNC) that has the USB option.
> 
> How do I configure Xastir to work with the TNC-X with a USB connection?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

I don't have one, but according to the TNC-X web page, the USB connection is
nothing more than a USB<->Serial adapter of a sort that Linux should already
have support for.

Do a tail -f of /var/log/messages while plugging in the TNC, and you
should see a message saying it's detected and recognized as a serial adapter.
(this could appear in /var/log/daemon.log instead, I forget).  Once it does,
you should find /dev/ttyUSBx (where "x" is probably 0 if you have no other
adapters plugged in), which should act just like a serial port.  Configure
Xastir with a Serial KISS TNC on /dev/ttyUSB0 (or whatever) and it should Just
Work.
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