[Xastir] New user of Xastir

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 09:31:53AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <rpfpd9976 at sbcglobal.net> flavor, containing:
> I have xastir up and running on Ubuntu 9.10 but having problems setting up a radio to RF,trying to set up a Alinco DR-135 TP or a Kenwood TM-D700A can't get the program to see either radio.

How are you connecting your radio to the computer?  Through a USB<->Serial 
adapter?  How are you setting up your interface in Xastir?

The Kenwood is easy to get working, once you know what serial port it's 
hooked up to.  Open the interface control menu, select "Serial TNC with GPS on
AUX port", tell it the serial port device (e.g. /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyUSB0 or 
whatever), set the baud rate (should be 9600 for the D700), choose
"8,N,1" for port style, and use "tnc-startup.d700" and "tnc-stop.d700" for
TNC setup and shutdown filenames, respectively.  Should Just Work, and
the D700 should switch to PKT mode when you start up the interface in Xastir.

If you're already doing that, what is happening that tells you the program
can't see the radio?  

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