From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Patrick A. Ouellette" Subject: Re: [ANN] Hamlib 1.2.5 released Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:04:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20060228210401.GA12763@flying-gecko.net> References: <4403823C.2090603@yahoo.es> <9923fd660602280739j7feda442ofb1315bf5d748bc9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9923fd660602280739j7feda442ofb1315bf5d748bc9@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Douglas Cole Cc: Ricardo Saiz Villoria , Linux HAMs On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:39:37AM -0800, Douglas Cole wrote: > > On 2/27/06, Ricardo Saiz Villoria wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am trying to do exactly the same thing. I cannot drill the walls in my > > apartment so I will leave my rig (yaesu 817) close to the antenna, with > > its serial port and mic/spk connected to an old pentium. > > > > I have managed to make grig-hamlib work under debian 3.1 with my ft 817, > > see: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1449631&forum_id=80395 > > I like the idea of Grig, but I think it requires running X and Gnome, > which I had hoped not to do, since what I am going to be doing will be > on a low bandwidth link, but I will give it a look and see if I can > run it via an VNC session, I was hoping to get something going with an > ncurses interface so that X did not have to be running... > At the risk of sounding low tech, you could use a telnet/ssh session to the remote PC and run rigctl to change settings. Not the flashy monitoring of grig or an ncurses interface, but it would get the job done. You still have to get the audio to and from the radio.... 73, Pat KB8PYM -- Patrick Ouellette pat@flying-gecko.net kb8pym@arrl.net Amateur Radio: KB8PYM Living life to a Jimmy Buffett soundtrack "Crank the amp to 11, this needs more cowbell - and a llama wouldn't hurt either"