[Xastir] ax25 question

[Ray Wells]

On 05/07/11 10:23, Lee Bengston wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Ray Wells<vk2tv at exemail.com.au>  wrote:
>> Lee
>>
>> Did you load the modules with
>> modprobe ax25
>> modprobe mkiss- at least for the manual test on the interface.
>
> Thanks Ray!  That helped a lot.
>
> I can now do something similar to
>
>    # /usr/bin/axcall aprs k7xyz via sea
>
> and see the transmitter get keyed, and I can do
>
>    # /usr/bin/axlisten -c -a
>
> and see the packets coming in.  The interface looks fine now except
> when I try Xastir.
>
>    socket: Operation not permitted
>    Mon Jul 04 19:54:53 EDT 2011:
> 	  Interface Error!  Error opening interface 0 Hard Fail
>
> The above happens even if I run xastir as root, so it does not appear
> to be a permissions issue.  I'm on a 2.01 build from May, 2011.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Lee - K5DAT

My first question was going to be "have you changed permissions on 
/usr/local/bin/xastir to 4755" but I think you've cut me off at the pass.

I'll defer to the xastir experts at this point.

Ray vk2tv