My computing skills being as they are (above average u s e r), I have not had the pleasure of getting soundmodem to work tx/rx so far, thus being denied the pleasure of replacing my aging APRS I-gate Tosh with agw and ui on it, with a Linux box
what gives me comfort is the fact that prior to Christmas (and a few tens of hours in front of a laptop), what I knew of Linux was its five letters, while after that I knew enough to have all the office machines converted from XP to Ubuntu 8.10 if only soundmodem more intuitive, to the non-programmer radio amateur regards George SV4LAX On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 03:38 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: > In his defense, I have played with Soundmodem (receive only) and > there are some tricky bits to it. I configured it sometimes as an > AX.25 kernel device, and at other times as a serial KISS TNC. > > One can have trouble with the audio levels and settings on the > soundcard, making it trickier yet. > > Configuring AX.25 networking ports of any type is not that hard once > you've done it a few dozen times, but that first time is a doozy. > It's probably easier to configure Soundmodem as a serial KISS TNC, > then just attach Xastir's serial KISS TNC interface to it. That way > you can avoid all the AX.25 kernel networking setup. > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
