[Xastir] MacOS/Xastir problem

[Jeremy McDermond]

Using the cu device instead of the tty device tends to work better for me. 

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Jeremy McDermond NH6Z
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On May 9, 2013, at 10:27 AM, "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 May 2013, Jacob Tennant wrote:
> 
>> Whenever I try to activate a serial tnc connection it causes my Xastir instance to freeze for about 30 seconds then the serial port never opens?
>> 
>> I have checked that all of the configuration is correct  duch as /dev/tty.usbserialFTDI845 for the serial port and I have use a terminal program to talk to the tnc and everything runs fine there.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> Who is the group owner of that device?  Have you added yourself to that group and logged out/in again to gain the new group?
> 
> Are the group permissions set properly on that port so that both the owner and the group can read/write the port?
> 
> If all else fails, have you tried setting Xastir SUID root to see if that overcomes the issues?  (As root:  "chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir")
> 
> On this OpenSuSE system the ports look like this:
> 
>    $ cd /dev
>    $ ls -al | grep ttyS
>    crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  64 Apr  8 09:11 ttyS0
>    crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  65 Apr  8 09:11 ttyS1
>    crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  66 Apr  8 09:11 ttyS2
>    crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  67 Apr  8 09:11 ttyS3
>    crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  68 Apr  8 09:11 ttyS4
>    crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  69 Apr  8 09:11 ttyS5
>    crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  70 Apr  8 09:11 ttyS6
>    crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  71 Apr  8 09:11 ttyS7
> 
> So I would add my user to the "dialout" group and log out/in again to be able to use the ports.  Both the owner "root" and the group "dialout" for these ports are marked "rw".
> 
> The  serial port names I'd specify in Xastir would be "/dev/ttyS0" or "/dev/ttyS1".  I'm not using USB->Serial adapters at work or at home to talk to TNC's.  I found them problematic at home so went to real serial port cards.  Some of course don't have that option.
> 
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