[Xastir] {Disarmed} KAM not transmitting and solution

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:37:21AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <wa7nwp at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Or is it the other way around.   The TNC is not in KISS mode and the
> application (Xastir) wants it to be...

Were that the case, Xastir wouldn't have been sending UNPROTO and
MYCALL commands, which are only sent when Xastir's expecting a TNC in regular
serial command mode.

I'm really curious what that non-printable character is.  Stefano:  What
ascii code shows up in that little box you describe?

I'm wondering if this could be a bizarre locale issue, with printf/sprintf
trying to do things under the covers that is breaking the string that
Xastir's trying to send to the TNC.

What is LANG set to on your machine?  Have you tried running xastir from
a command line like this:

 env LANG=C xastir &

?

If that fixes things, it may be that some encoding issue is at fault.

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Bill Vodall <wa7nwp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That could also be a TNC in KISS mode.   The data portion of the
> > packet is displayable ASCII but the header is binary and shows up as
> > control characters...
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Stefano Sinagra <sinageruk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Bill*,
> >> *thanks for the suggestion: I'll check it out just in case, but I
> >> strongly doubt this can be the cause, as the "mistake" always happens
> >> at the same point of the string.
> >> What here appear as garbled characters are rather "non visible"
> >> control characters as represented in the copy and paste from the
> >> terminal.
> >> On my Ubuntu window they show up as a little boxes containing the
> >> char's ascii code.
> >> *
> >> *73
> >> Stefano*
> >>
> >>>Bill Vodall*
> >>>    *Thu Jul 26 19:44:05 EDT 2012*
> >>>>On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Stefano Sinagra <sinageruk at gmail.com <http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir>> wrote:**>>* CMD: MYCALL IZ0MJE*>>* CMD: UNPROTO APX200 VIA WIDE2-2*>>* CMD: CONV*>>* CMD:    /???&=4151.1 N/01225.4 ExXASTIR-Linux*>>*X:2<    /???&=4151.1 N/01225.4 ExXASTIR-Linux*>
> >>>Garbled characters on the serial connection?   Perhaps this:
> >>>...
> >>>I've replaced caps on 2 KAM's so far...
> >>>
> >>>73
> >>>Bill - WA7NWP
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