On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 21:58, Jarett DeAngelis <jdeange...@alumni.nd.edu> wrote: > This driver did the trick of connecting to the TNC! It caused a new device > to show up in /dev and I was able to use that.
Are you using the /dev/tty.XXXX device, or /dev/cu.XXXX? You want the /dev/cu.XXXX device. > Problems I have now: > > GPS data is not passing through. > > OpenStreetMaps don't seem to be an option, though I thought I compiled in > support. To load the OpenStreetMaps, click on Map > Map Chooser. Scroll to "Online/OSM_tiled_mapnik.geo". Click it to select, click OK. They can be slow to download; watch the status bar to see what's going on. > The default maps don't seem to download correctly. Not sure what you mean by this. The default map is a world country lines. Very basic. They don't download anything. > Thoughts? I work at an electronics company. Our main product is programmed via serial port. I'm the resident Mac guru, so the Mac support calls usually get forwarded to me. I have observed customers having all kinds of trouble with most of the USB-serial converter cables available. The Prolific cables seem to disappear from /dev, or become completely unresponsive. The one type of cable I've observed to be rock-solid is those based on the FDTI chipset. That is what I use personally, and I've had no trouble finding the serial device and using it with Xastir and a D710. By the way, you can have Xastir put the D710 in PACKET12 mode automatically on startup. Put this command in your tnc-startup file to put A band in packet mode: TN 2,0 Or B-band: TN 2,1 > 73 DE KC2KOA. Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir