[Packet] Linux setup - putting TNC into KISS mode

Fri, 7 May 2004 08:52:29 +1000

Thanks Duane.  All the newsgroup posts use minicom (the Linux equivalent of 
Telix,) but it keeps saying it is Offline.  Windoze is probably the answer.

Doug. 

On Thu, 6 May 2004 08:27 pm, Duane Hofstetter wrote:
> Hey Doug,
>
> I generally left my MFJ1274 in kiss mode all the time while running NOS.
> If you use hyperterminal or another terminal program to connect to your
> tnc. You should be able to just type in KISS ON  then PERM.. and it should
> stay in kiss mode
> To put it back into standard mode.. from NOS type in : param ax0 255 I
> believe
>
> This may explain it better..
>
> http://he.fi/archive/linux-hams/200004/0047.html
>
> He is using JNOS for linux though.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Laidlaw" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:15 AM
> Subject: [Packet] Linux setup - putting TNC into KISS mode
>
> > I got a lot of help on this subject before, but have lost most of it.
> >
> > I have installed the AX25 programs and have an ax0 item in gKrellM.  I
>
> have
>
> > tried sending a "connect" with xcall, and the data is going through to
> > the TNC ( a MFJ-1270B), but nothing is happening on the status lights.  I
>
> believe
>
> > that I am not putting the TNC into KISS mode first.  I have the following
>
> in
>
> > my /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
> >
> > #Set up AX.25 Packet
> > insmod ax25
> > insmod mkiss
> > /usr/sbin/kissattach /dev/ttyS0 Port1 44.135.96.242
> > kissparms -p Port1 -t 100 -s 100 -r 25
> > /usr/sbin/ax25d
> >
> > (I thought that the two "insmod" commands should be once-only, but they
>
> don't
>
> > seem to persist.)
> >
> > As I understand it, everything there assumes that the TNC is already in
>
> KISS
>
> > mode and I have to send a KISS command to the TNC first.  From memory, it
>
> was
>
> > "echo" something to the serial port.  What is the syntax, and which line
>
> does
>
> > it follow?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Doug VK3KDI.
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