[Xastir] Soundmodem on OSX

[Dana Rawding]

To Curt's comment,

There  in lies exactly the issue.  The one thing you can't do on OS X  
is recompile the kernel.  Therefore we will never see native AX.25 on  
OS X.  However as Curt pointed out it could be possible to create some  
kind of KISS TNC emulator.  However I think that's going the wrong  
way.  It would be more advantageous and forward looking to add  
something like Jack support to Xastir.

I currently run a Software Defined Radio on OS X with Jack and John  
Melton's Java GUI with no problem.  If down the road Xastir was able  
to get sound input/output from Jack it would be completely possible to  
do all sorts of soundmodem stuff with OS X or for that matter pretty  
much any platform.  As SDR's get more popular and common in the future  
I think our wonderful developers will add Jack support.  All it takes  
is one or two of them to get interested in the project and I bet we  
would see code in a matter of days ;-)

Dana
N1OFZ


On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the explanation Jason, I won't say its all clear now but  
>> I do understand better.
>>
>> So now all we have to do is find some software genius that can  
>> create a soundmodem equivalent for us.
>>
>> Yea, that'll happen!
>
> If it runs on FreeBSD and Solaris, it can be made to run on OSX.
> I've run it on Linux with both methods, AX.25 network interface -or-
> serial KISS TNC.  It works fine either way.  You'd be shooting for
> the KISS TNC emulation 'cuz it doesn't need AX.25 protocol added to
> the kernel.  All user-mode stuff.
>
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