[Xastir] Received data is gibberish

[Robert Mead]

Okay, I've made a fool of myself - since Soundmodem is emulating a KISS TNC, it should be added to Xastir as a KISS TNC...

Please disregard, it's working fine...

KC2YWE Robert

On Aug 24, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 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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