Is there a way to setup Xastir on one linux box and have it talk to the AX.25 stack on a second box?
I'm guessing that if this is possible, I would need to setup an AX.25 stack on the box where Xastir is running and somehow configure it to talk to the AX.25 stack on the other box. Is this possible? -- William McKeehan On Thu, March 15, 2007 10:41 am, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Chuck Hast wrote: > >> I was looking at Xastir docs and it appears that it will work with the ax25 >> stack. > > Yes. It'll work with the AX.25 stack -or- with the "soundmodem" > driver set up as a serial KISS TNC -or- with a KISS TNC on a direct > serial port -or- with a non-KISS TNC on a direct serial port. > > Of course the only way to share TNC's with other apps is to use the > AX.25 stack. > > Xastir has a "View->Incoming Data" dialog so you can see whether > packets are coming in at all once you set up an AX.25 interface in > Xastir and enable it. > > You'll also have to do "chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir" as root in > order to give Xastir the proper privileges to open an AX.25 > networking port. Xastir drops privileges to normal user level > unless it's messing with ports where it needs root privilege. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown > "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U > "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
