Re: Soundmodem (userspace) problems

[Rodolfo Brasnarof <rodob@datafull.com>]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:34:55 +0100
ik1rac@yahoo.it wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I am trying to set up AX.25 on a dual sound card machine. The first
> on-board card is a SiS 7012 delivering system sounds; the second a
> SoundBlaster dedicated to Ham radio. 
> Here is the detail
> 
> cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [SI7012         ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
>                      SiS SI7012 with ALC100,100P at 0xdc00, irq 11
> 1 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
>                      Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xd400, irq 5
> 2 [UART           ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
>                      MPU-401 UART at 0x300, irq 10
> 
> The machine is running:
> Kubuntu 5.10 - Breezy Badger
> kernel 2.6.12
> 
> ax25-apps 0.0.6
> ax25-tools 0.0.8
> libax25 0.0.11
> soundmodem 0.7
> 
> Here are the steps so far:
> 
> sudo soundmodemconfig
> Configured IO as soundcard /dev/dsp1 and channel access parameters
> then configured channel 0 as an afsk 1200 bps modem using mkiss mode
> and sm0 interface name.
> Runned diagnostics and everything works like a charm: decodes and
> transmit.
> 
> Then configured /etc/ax25/axports as:
>  1       IK1RAC-1        1200    255     2       144.850 MHz (1200
>  bps)
> 
> Then started soundmodem with:
> sudo soundmodem
> sm[9043]: ioctl: TIOCSETD: No such device (19)
> 
> which, I am guessing, means that sm0 interface has not been created.
> 
> Then I checked modules and it seems they are loaded:
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> mkiss                   9388  0
> ax25                   49644  1 mkiss
> 
> So I started digging through the past list posts and found something
> relative to unloading and re-loading sound module kernel before
> starting soundmodem. No luck.
> 
> Ok now I am at loss. Am I missing something obvious ? (surely yes!)

Are you using alsa? Is the oss compatibility module loaded?

Within soundmodemconfig you can generate tones and show input signal?