[Xastir] Still no luck with the THD72A

[Peter Barrett]

what does /var/log/messages say?

pete vk6fun

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Javier Henderson <javier at cisco.com> wrote:
> So far, no dice. I made sure the HT is turned on and in PACKET12 mode before I plug it into one of the USB ports, the xastir executable has suid set, the definition of the serial KISS TNC points to the right file, and so on.
>
> The tnc.log file gets written to when I tell xastir to transmit, but the rig never transmits. When data is received (ie, I send a beacon with another radio nearby) the little red arrow does not flash at the bottom of the screen on xastir.
>
> ZTerm can talk to the TNC just fine, and I see the data coming in when beacons are received.
>
> A datapoint that might have some bearing on this: I can run ZTerm at the same time xastir is running, without ZTerm complaining that the serial port is in use. I was expecting ZTerm to complain that the serial port is in use.
>
> Permissions maybe?
>
> I will try running xastir as root next.
>
> 73,
> -jav w6vms
>
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