[Xastir] ax25 question

[Steve Rogers]

I have removed aprsd and have started ax25.up before starting xastir. And the device remains down. I use ax25.down and reboot before the xastir device port will work again. Stev kd5mkv
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:40:04 -0400
> From: lee.bengston at gmail.com
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] ax25 question
> 
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Steve Rogers <kd5mkv at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I had ax25tnc working, but found I pasted the wrong port /dev, still receive :
> > kissattach: device /dev/ttyUSB0 already in use
> > axconfig: port aprs not active
> > kissparms: no AX.25 ports configured
> 
> > I am going with aprsd from repository, on Ubuntu 10.4.2. as for USB device I am using tnc-x usb port.  I must have xastir off when ./ax25.up command then my device port in xastir goes error>down. I read thru wiki carefully, what did I miss?
> 
> ./ax25.up is supposed to enable/configure the ax25 interface so that
> Xastir or any ax25 capable application can use it.  If you already
> have Xastir running with a device port "up" that is using
> /dev/ttyUSB0, then "/dev/tty/USB0 already in use" is exaclty what I
> would expect to see.  You have to run the ax25up script first before
> attempting to use the interface with Xastir or anything else.  Also I
> woud take aprsd out of the equation and get things working wtih Xastir
> first - easier to troubleshoot with 'View - Incomnig Data", etc.
> 
> 
> Lee - K5DAT
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