[Xastir] Serial port issues with Xastir on OS X

[Jason Godfrey]

I use a Prolific USB serial dongle on MacOS 10.6. It works for me. I use the
device /dev/cu.usbserial. I would suggest using that device and see if that
improves the situation.

- Jason, N0RPM

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've tried configuring the interface as "Serial TNC" and "Serial KISS TNC"
> using the dynamic device created by the USB-RS232 adapter driver...
> typically /dev/tty.PL2302-######## where the driver generates ######## based
> on device number.
>
> Further investigating this issue, I ran Xastir via Dtruss (similar to
> strace on Linux) and noticed it attempts to use the /var/lock directory for
> a serial port lock file which does not exist on OSX.  I found the directory
> hard-coded in interface.c.  Changing it to the something more appropriate
> for OSX did not fix the problem.  Unfortunately, Dtruss doesn't seem to
> provide much output beyond an attempt to read/write a lock file in the
> /var/lock directory before Xastir hangs.  Perhaps interface.c contains other
> Linux-specific items which break on OSX?
>
>
> On 8/19/10 2:38 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Matt Kassawara wrote:
>>
>>  I built Xastir on OSX 10.6.4 from CVS synchronized on 08/19/10. Upon
>>> starting an interface involving a serial device (standard or KISS
>>> TNC), the interface mysteriously disappears from the list and Xastir
>>> hangs indefinitely.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for checking on the "root" user issue.
>>
>> What type of interface are you defining in Xastir, and what exact
>> port are you using?
>>
>> Perhaps one of the OSX users can help you further. I know some
>> people here run Xastir on OSX.
>>
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