[Packet] Linux setup - putting TNC into KISS mode

Fri, 7 May 2004 14:28:18 +1000

I got it set with HyperTerminal, and I am now able to send Connects (but the 
rig is now the problem.)

Doug.

On Fri, 7 May 2004 08:52 am, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> 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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