[Xastir] ax25 question

[Lee Bengston]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Dana Borgman wrote:
>
>> I would guess that the operation not permitted error isn't caused by
>> user permissions, but rather what the ioctl call is trying to do.
>> Something like opening a mouse for writing.  I have run into issues like
>> that using USB-Serial adapters.
>>
>> The error lists "socket" as the problem.  Perhaps the socket call is
>> trying to do something that the USB adapter can't deal with.  Did
>> anything pop up in the system logs?
>
> Also:  Do you have a real hardware serial port that you can at least
> temporarily use instead of the USB adapter, or a different brand of
> USB->Serial adapter to try?

Finally got back to this.  My other usb to serial adapter is working.
After all of the manual tests worked, I set up a lightweight igate
program (aprsg) to use the ax25 interface, and it was happy.  Then for
a quick test I lauched xastir for a few minutes as root, just to make
sure permissions were out of the equation.  After starting the ax25
interface, I finally saw it display as 'up' - hooray.  Aprsg stayed
happy and logged the same packets in its text log that I saw incoming
using 'view incoming data' in xastir.

I'm running an Acer "Revo 1600" nettop PC headless and using xrdp for
remote access - OS is LInux Mint Debian - XFCE desktop.  I've found
xrdp is much faster than vnc, and I can access it via either Windows
remote desktop or the various Linux rdp clients (rdesktop, etc).  The
issue with xrdp is that it creates a new instance of an existing login
including a new x session.  So, for example if I have my username
auto-login at boot and start xastir, and I then access the computer
remotely, I can't see the map or manipulate Xastir even if I'm logged
in as the same user.  As has been discussed many times on the list,
there is other software better suited for igating, anyway, so why have
xastir run in the background all the time as an igate.

So now aprsg (or aprx - still playing with that one as well) can be
the igate, which is a small daemon running in the background, and I
can remotely access the box from various computers, launch xastir
whenever I feel like it, and share the TNC.  Sweet!  Thanks everyone
for the help!

I find it strange that the Keyspan usb to serial adapter worked fine
when talking to a serial TNC or a serial KISS TNC but didn't want to
work as an ax25 interface.

Lee - K5DAT