Re: [HELP] Sound card as TNC, Kernel 2.4.22, Intel board

From: Curt Mills, WE7U (hcessfld@gsecone.com)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 19:50:28 EET

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    On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

    > I have an Intel Pentium 3 board with Debian Woody, Kernel 2.4.22, and am
    > trying to get the motherboard sound to act as my TNC. I want to
    > experiment with packet and APRS using the sound card.
    >
    > I've compiled a static kernel with AX.25 support, /sbin/ifconfig -a shows
    > AX.25 ports exist. I run Xastir, Configure > Interfaces > Add > AX25 TNC
    > > OK and get an error window popping up:
    >
    > "Interface error! Error opening interface 0 Hard Fail"
    >
    > and the xterm from which I typed xastir offers:
    >
    > axconfig: port 1 not active
    > axconfig: port 2 not active
    > ERROR: problem with axports file

    Did you do the "chmod 4555 /usr/local/bin/xastir" command? Xastir
    has to have "root" priviledges in order to talk to the kernel AX.25
    interfaces. We drop priviledges for all activities where we don't
    need them, so Xastir is still relatively safe to run SUID root like
    that.

    --Curt, one of the Xastir guys. 

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