Fire up a copy of minicom and see if you can talk to the serial port as
a 'regular' user. If not, you can tell the serial port that you (as a
regular user) can access it... We can help with all the bad ways to do
that...
gerry
Jim Tolbert wrote:
After a disk crash in a laptop, I replaced the hard disk, reloaded open
SUSE 10.2, rebuilt Xastir with all the options ( including GPSMAN), and
reloaded all the maps.. I connected a KAM TNC to the serial port and
selected Serial TNC in the interface control. I have tried a variety
of TNC port identifiers ( /dev/ttyS0, COM1, etc.) and tried
"tnc-startup.kam" as well as "tnc-startup.sys". Checking the Incoming
data window when I turn the KAM on and off yields nothing. I also
tried using a USB to serial converter with the same null result.
When I connect the laptop to the internet, I can see and plot aprs
stations.
Tomorrow, I will have access to a set of Garmin Rinos for the
afternoon. I have 22 hours to get this going <grin>.
Is it immediately obvious where my error is? Is there a way to confirm
that the serial port is functional? Is there anything special about
connecting a Rino to the laptop that would increase the likelihood of
the system work? Any other suggestions?
One of the other guys has the other laptop that is running Xastir ( from
a binary download running on VMWare). Unfortunately, it was not
compiled with GPSMAN so the Rino options are not available.
Many thanks ............. jt
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