From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Nielsen Subject: Re: Baycom modem and simple text ui Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:51:20 -0700 Message-ID: <20050809165120.GA20715@oz.net> References: <4076450105080900355ec82283@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4076450105080900355ec82283@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:35:05AM -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > I just put together a simple modem that functions the same as the > classic "dumb" baycom modem. It just turns RS-232 data into tones and > vice-versa. I got the Baycom software to run off a DOS bootdisk, and > the modem works just great. But what I would really like to do is do > the same stuff under linux so I can do it over SSH. :) > > The only software package I could find that provides similar > functionality to the original baycom software is tfkiss, but I have > been unsuccessful in getting it to compile. The tarball looks > antiquated, and it fails compilation on my modern linux system (I'm > not much of a software guy; I'm learning). Does anyone know of an > application that pretends to be a TNC and makes all the nicely > formatted packets with just the simple text interface? Perhaps someone > knows how I can compile tfkiss properly? Any and all comments > appreciated. Baycom modems are supported in Linux. Try either the baycom_ser_fdx or baycom_ser_hdx drivers (you may need to configure/compile your kernel, although they in some packaged kernels, e.g., Debian and some others). See Documentation/networking/baycom.txt in the Linux source tarball for more details. Bob, N7XY