[Xastir] Soundmodem on OSX

[Bob Nielsen]

Jack was unknown to me also, but as usual, Google is your friend.   
This looks like a good place to start:

http://lau.linuxaudio.org/jack/

73, Bob N7XY

On Jun 21, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Keith Kaiser wrote:

> 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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