[Xastir] Soundmodem on OSX

[Keith Kaiser]

I don't know Jack!

I guess I had to say that. I've never heard of whatever Jack is, can  
you give us a little background or point us at a web site?


On Jun 21, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Dana Rawding wrote:

> 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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Keith Kaiser
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