[Xastir] Mac OS X serial port woes

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> What stinks is that I can fire up kermit and talk to the TNC or the
> GPS just fine, then when I exit kermit and fire up xastir it won't
> work.

Check whether kermit is SGID _something_.  Also check whether the
/dev/ links you're dealing with point further down into /dev/
somewhere to devices with different ownership or permissions, or
perhaps down into /sys/dev/, similar problems.

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