Last advice worked beautiful!! Added the user to the group that owns the serial device.
Thanks N2IX --- On Sat, 3/13/10, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: From: Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Xastir] kpc-9612 and now what? To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 11:04 PM On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Alejandro Pereida wrote: > The interface remains "DOWN" and the "start" button won't bring it up. > The serial device is /dev/ttyS0 I tested it using minicom and works fine with > the > KPC-9612. > > Any ideas what Am I missing? chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir That will allow Xastir to open the serial port as root. Alternative that would be more secure: Add the user you run Xastir as to the group that the serial port is owned by. -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> 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!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
