Re: Looking for Packet Radio Software

[Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org>]

john paterson wrote:
> Hi, all...
> 
> I just joined the mailing list. I have looked through a lot of the archives
> and not found the information I am looking for, so I will try here. I have a
> computer running Ubuntu 10.04 and would like to use it for packet radio. I
> have tried Airmail and Outpost Packet Manager, both in Wine, but neither
> works well. Airmail works for one interchange then apparently messes up the
> the TNC (a KPC3), so that I have to reset the TNC to use it again on
> Windows. Outpost PM seems to communicate with the TNC OK, in the serial
> terminal, but never shows outgoing or incoming characters in the terminal
> window, and does not properly communicate with the TNC when trying to
> send/receive from the packet manager.

I spoke with Jim Oberhofer KN6PE a couple of months ago about
using Outpost on Linux.  He said that he'd heard from several
local hams in who have succeeded, using an older version of
WINE, but that the current version of WINE doesn't work as
well.  I don't recall the specific details of the versions.

http://www.outpostpm.org/support.html may have some hints.

http://www.danplanet.com/home/85-radio/82-outpost-on-linux-with-wine
suggests a workaround, using a local Telnet proxy.