[Ham-Mac] Kantronics TNC with Mac?

[James Nedbalek]

On Thursday, Nov 14, 2002, at 13:30 US/Central, Chuck Counselman wrote:

> Is there anything we should know about such mappings/setting beyond 
> what's built into your program and/or written about in its 
> documentation?
>

Haven't run into anything special.  Only need to make sure that the 
serial tool is set to use DTR&CTS.  (In the "Communications" section of 
the software)

The other settings for the KAM used here are:
Baud = 9600
Parity = None
Data bits = 8
Stop bits = 1

The KAM- XL can communicate at higher speeds.

The largest difficulty we find that users encounter is that the TNC has 
been set to use some settings in the past but the user forgets what 
those were.  So it is difficult to communicate with the TNC.  The best 
method to solve that is to do a hard reset on the TNC which requires 
removing from the case.  Once that is done then start the software in 
terminal mode, go to the communications section and set the serial 
tool.  Then turn on the TNC and one will see the autobaud routine which 
will set the params in the TNC correctly.

Not  a problem with a new TNC of course.

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James Nedbalek          nedbalek@winternet.com           Minneapolis, MN
       Macintosh/Apple Systems and Software Development since 1982
Phone (952) 934-8317                       
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