On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Michael Lewis wrote:
I tried last night myself for a few hours interesting that I could decode packets in minicom with no problem so I tried back in Xastir and I only see myself.. I have a weather station about half a mile from me and he beacons out about every 3-5 min I never see the incoming arrow show in xastir (I guess that's what it does when a packet comes in) So I'm lost
Again, if you can see the entire packets in Minicom then you're NOT in KISS mode. If you see garbled header info and then a viewable payload for the packet in Minicom, then you ARE in KISS mode. I haven't looked at the TT4 command-set before, but if it's not TAPR-2 compatible, Xastir will only be able to use that TNC in KISS mode and you'll want to use the Serial KISS TNC interface in Xastir to talk to it. If it is TAPR-2 compatible (or enough so for Xastir), then you may try using command-mode instead of KISS mode for the TNC, and use the Serial TNC interface in Xastir. Are you unplugging the USB->Serial adapter cable during your tests and plugging it back in? If Xastir has the port open then you may be getting different /dev/USB* port numbers each time you plug it in, then would have to close the old port in Xastir, change the interface properties to the new /dev/USB* number, then restart Xastir's interface in order to talk to it again. Just another place where things might go wrong. I got tired of Linux renumbering my USB->Serial port between /dev/USB0 and /dev/USB1, so I yanked that cable, turned off the machine, put in a dual-port RS-232 card, and now run the TNX-X (KISS TNC) off a real serial port. Voila! No more interface name changes. -- 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
