From: Hamish Moffatt (hrb@roskapostia.tunk.net)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 23:37:27 EET
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:08:19PM -0500, N1YRK wrote:
> The first machine is an HP Omnibook 800CT with RedHat 6.0. I had many
> problems with the soundmodem driver until I got /etc/conf.modules set up
> correctly. The radio here is a Tekk KS-960. I have built two different
> serial wiring harnesses, the first was just straight-through, no
> components. Next, I built the cables as described in Thomas Sailer's
> document. Both had the same problem: the radio started transmitting as
> soon as the cable was connected to the serial port, and continued to
> transmit as long as it was connected.
You definately need the circuit as describe on Tom Sailer's page.
But maybe the Tekk is keyed differently internally?
> 4) nothing equivalent to setserial that I have to do here, is there?
No.
> (tx always on) is the same as when they are. Maybe, somehow, the PTT
> drivers are broken? Isn't it kind of strange to have "tx on" be the
> default? Someone could accidently transmit that way. Is this what other
> people see as the PTT default behavior?
No. My radio does not transmit before I configure the drivers.
(By the way, I use the same circuit to key my HF rig under Windows.
No problem there either.)
> p.s. I am working on creating ham-centric linux distribution. Does anyone
> know of work that's already been done in this area?
I think Debian is pretty good in that area already. (Disclaimer:
I'm a Debian developer.)
Hamish
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