[Xastir] ax25 question

[Steve Rogers]

Is it possible you could update the wiki for Debian/Ubuntu users as how you setup ax25tnc, as 
the wiki may be out of date. For example the modprobe.conf run /sbin/update-modules, I have given a year or so ago. As for the serial adapter, if it is a prolific serial adapter, they seem to work for awhile then stop sending incoming and outgoing packet from the tnc to xastir. Thx Steve kd5mkv

> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:06:09 -0400
> From: lee.bengston at gmail.com
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] ax25 question
> 
> 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
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