Re: [Xastir] Serial Port wont start

[Norm McMillan]

Thanks. Told ya I was tired! :-)

Norm
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Iain R. Learmonth 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 18/05/16 11:44, Norm McMillan wrote:
> > Iain,
> > tried
> > *sudo adduser myusername dialout*
> > got the expected response but still have to start xastir as root *sudo
> > xastir* to start the serial port.
>
> You will need to log out and log in again in order to have the new group
> membership take effect.
>
> Thanks,
> Iain.
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Re: [Xastir] Serial Port wont start

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi,

On 18/05/16 11:44, Norm McMillan wrote:
> Iain,
> tried
> *sudo adduser myusername dialout*
> got the expected response but still have to start xastir as root *sudo
> xastir* to start the serial port.

You will need to log out and log in again in order to have the new group
membership take effect.

Thanks,
Iain.

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Re: [Xastir] Serial Port wont start

[Norm McMillan]

Iain,
tried
*sudo adduser myusername dialout*
got the expected response but still have to start xastir as root *sudo
xastir* to start the serial port.

It's been a long day so I'll look at it tomorrow. Thanks all for you help,
at least I know the problem, if not the answer :-)

Norm
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:18 PM, David Lane  wrote:

> Yeah, I was only thinking about the serial port. No coffee yet. It's a
> common thing to forget you need elevated privileges for serial access. One
> of those hardwired responses. Yours is a much better answer.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> > On May 18, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Iain R. Learmonth 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> On 18/05/16 11:08, David Lane wrote:
> >> Are you in the root/wheel group?  Serial needs to be started with root.
> >
> > :/
> >
> > On Debian systems, and its derivatives like Ubuntu, you can do:
> >
> > sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME dialout
> >
> > The dialout group is allowed to access the serial ports (historically
> > would have had a modem attached to them hence the name of the group).
> >
> > You should not need to be root to use a serial port, and this is pretty
> > bad practice.
> >
> > In recent versions of the Xastir Debian package, you also do not need to
> > be root to use the Linux kernel's AX.25 stack. You can add yourself to
> > the xastir-ax25 group using the same command as long as you enabled
> > non-root access when you installed the package.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Iain.
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Re: [Xastir] Serial Port wont start

[Norm McMillan]

Umm... no. Let me just try that

Norm
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:08 PM, David Lane  wrote:

> Are you in the root/wheel group?  Serial needs to be started with root.
>
>
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>
> > On May 18, 2016, at 5:50 AM, Norm McMillan  wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'm no noob, more like a "born again", and it has been a few years
> so I
> > may be missing something.
> > Ubuntu 14.04
> > Dell Optiplex 755
> > Paccomm Tiny2
> > xastir 2.0.0-2.1ubuntu1
> >
> > The Internet interface starts and runs just fine
> > Serial port, not so much. When I try to start it just sits there. no
> error
> > message.
> >
> > Set up for
> > Serial TNC on /dev/ttyS0
> > 9600 8N1
> > tnc-startup.tnc2
> > tnc-stop-sys
> >
> > Interestingly gtkterm finds and communicates with the tnc no problem
> using
> > thos prams., minicom not!
> >
> > I guess I'm missing something?
> >
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Re: [Xastir] Serial Port wont start

[David Lane]

Sorry, you said Ubuntu - sudo. 


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> On May 18, 2016, at 5:50 AM, Norm McMillan  wrote:
> 
> OK, I'm no noob, more like a "born again", and it has been a few years so I
> may be missing something.
> Ubuntu 14.04
> Dell Optiplex 755
> Paccomm Tiny2
> xastir 2.0.0-2.1ubuntu1
> 
> The Internet interface starts and runs just fine
> Serial port, not so much. When I try to start it just sits there. no error
> message.
> 
> Set up for
> Serial TNC on /dev/ttyS0
> 9600 8N1
> tnc-startup.tnc2
> tnc-stop-sys
> 
> Interestingly gtkterm finds and communicates with the tnc no problem using
> thos prams., minicom not!
> 
> I guess I'm missing something?
> 
> Norm, vk3xci
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