[Xastir] Received data is gibberish

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Robert Mead wrote:

> Hello all - I'm working on a new setup with Xastir and Soundmodem
> in KISS mode, and I'm unable to receive any clear data. Upon
> further investigation with Minicom, it appears that Soundmodem is
> feeding the device file bad data. Namely, I'm seeing gibberish,
> and a lot of unprintable characters - with the exception of
> regular ASCII text (in comments), which is coming in fine.

You're supposed to.  The entire AX.25 header portion should print
gibberish, then the INFO portion of the packet should come through
fine, then you might have a few characters of gibberish at the end
which is your CRC16 checksum.

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