Hello everybody again,
First of all I really thank you all for the help and the immediate responce.
Obviously, I am new in Linux and AX.25, though not new in computers, UNIX
and Amateur radio.....
Well, I did not know the existence of kissparms command.... I test it, to
stop kiss mode. It works OK but no flashing LEDs like in JNOS...
I continued the search and I reached to a final solution which makes me very
happy.
I want to share it with you all.
So, I made two stupid simple scripts.
ATTENTION: The first script works with kernels 2.2.x, because in previous
versions of kernel the syntax of command stty is diferent.....
But I think it works also in pre- 2.2.x kernels as well.
First script: kisson
stty -F /dev/ttyS1 speed 9600
echo -en "KISS ON\015" > /dev/ttyS1
echo -en "RESTART\015" > /dev/ttyS1
echo "KISS is ON ..."
Comments:
1.This scripts flaghes quickly the LEDs CON and STA three times exaclty as
JNOS does.... Yoopeeeeeee.....
2.Use stty not setserial. This was my mistake in my first approach. (Read
Serial-HOWTO to see why)
Of course /dev/ttyS1 (=COM2 in DOS/WINDOWS) must match your serial port and
9600 must match the speed of the serial port of your TNC.
3. That trick with echo -en and the octal character 015 (0D in hex = Line
feed) makes the LEDs flash. Note -n also. This is for NOT sending
newline...!!! ???? Without all this trick, I had no luck with the LEDs...
Second script
echo -e "\300\377\300\300" > /dev/ttyS1
echo "KISS is OFF..."
Comments:
1. The script flashes the LEDs CON and STA exaclty as when you turn the TNC
on. Yoopeeeeeee again.
Those strange numbers, is a sequence of four bytes, C0 FF C0 C0 in hex or
300 377 300 300 in octal, and is the sequence that the kissparms -p
<interface_name> -x sends to TNC as well as the JNOS command param
<interface_name> 255 does.
The problem with the kissparms -x command is, that it does not flashes the
LEDs. I have no idea why....?????
(Actually kissparms -x sends only C0 FF C0. One more C0 is missing... Maybe
that is the difference, but I did not want to search more....)
I hope that this is a usefull information for at least some of us...
Thanks everybody once more,
73 de SV1DAY
Manos
