[Xastir] Soundmodem on OSX

[Keith Kaiser]

For OSX anyway you might look at http://www.jackosx.com/

Hmmm! So who are these men of magical wonders who can create fun and  
interesting connections between the world of audio and Xastir? And how  
do we bribe them to look into this new realm of wonder?



On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> 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.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
>>>> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
>>>> Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
>>>> Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
>>>> The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Xastir mailing list
>>>> Xastir at lists.xastir.org
>>>> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Xastir mailing list
>>> Xastir at lists.xastir.org
>>> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
>>
>> 73's
>> Keith Kaiser
>> wa0tjt at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xastir mailing list
>> Xastir at lists.xastir.org
>> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xastir mailing list
> Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

73's
Keith Kaiser
wa0tjt at gmail.com