Ray, If the goal is to have a remotely located digi/igate, headless, maybe aprx would be a better choice?
I'm running K4JH-1 with aprx on an RPi, and it's been flawless for a couple of weeks now. 73, -jav k4jh On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:31 PM, Ray Wells <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > I'm making progress towards a working RPi for an igate but have struck a snag > compiling xastir. > > I'm using the latest Debian Wheezy kernel - 2012-08-16-wheezy-raspbian.img - > and have compiled libax25, ax25apps & ax25tools. The stumbling block with > xastir is dependency conflicts between libgeotiff2-dev and both imagemagick > and graphicsmagick. I can have one or the other but not both. The conflict is > well documented but, thus far, I have not found a solution. > > Given that the igate will be located in a position remote from the house and > will be headless I could ignore the problem but, I'd like to resolve it for > my own satisfaction and to help others. For that last reason I have sent this > enquiry here rather than directly to n1mjf who has already had xastir working > on the RPi. Perhaps n1mjf would like to dip in and provide a bit of detail. > > FWIW, what is working with the RPi so far, and it happily boots reliably, is > a 4 port usb/rs232 ftdi adaptor (thanks Jason) and a tp-link tl-wn721n usb > wifi adaptor. I'm using wicd to configure networking. Just xastir left to > sort <grin> > > BTW(1), if contemplating a lot of development tools and such on the RPi, use > a minimum 8GB SD card. I filled the 4G I started with. > > BTW(2), the Soundblaster usb that is supposed to work OOTB did work with the > RPi but locked the system on boot. There's a lot to be said for real KISS > TNCs for packet. _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
