KISS Mode

KISS Mode

[Cristiano Tavares - SP]

73's

Is there any program that makes the tnc pass to kiss using the shell, just like KISSER was used in DOS?

Re: KISS Mode

[Riley Williams]

Hi Cristiano.

> Is there any program that makes the tnc pass to kiss using the shell,
> just like KISSER was used in DOS?

Can't printf be used to do that? Assuming your TNC was on what DOS calls 
COM1 you'd use...

	printf 'KISS\r\n' > /dev/ttyS0

...to put it in KISS mode, wouldn't you?

Best wishes from Riley G7GOD / KB8PPG.

Re: KISS Mode

[Steve Stuart]

echo "KISS ON" > /dev/ttyS0

works for my PK-96.

Steve     W8AN

Re: KISS Mode

[Dennis Boone]

 > Is there any program that makes the tnc pass to kiss using the shell,
 > just like KISSER was used in DOS?

The following perl script gets a Kantronics TNC _out_ of KISS mode;
may work for others, I haven't read manuals or tried it.

    #!/usr/bin/perl

    $dev = shift(@ARGV);
    $speed = shift(@ARGV);

    open(DEV, "+<$dev") ||
        die "unable to open $dev: $!";

    print DEV chr(0xc0), chr(0xff), chr(0xc0);

    close(DEV);

Sample usage: kissoff /dev/ttyS0 1200

To get the TNC into KISS mode, you can generally use minicom or kermit
to to connect to the TNC, get it into command mode, then type the
appropriate command.  For a Kantronics unit that would be:

    intface kiss
    reset

which sticks when you turn off the power.  The command may be
different for other brands; I have manuals for the PK-900 and PK-232,
but they are at home right now.

De

Re: KISS Mode

[Mike Fenske]

I use minicom. I setup a minicom configuration file called "ax25". Here I
set baud rate to 9600, set the proper serial port and cleared all modem
commands. I set modem initialization string to C0 FF C0 ^M. To do this,
since I couldn't figure how to set those codes in minicom, I set the string
to 123^M and then edited the config file with a hex editor. Then I just
start "minicom ax25" and my TNC (KPC-9612) goes to command mode and I can
use minicom to communicate. When finished I use INTFACE XKISS, RESET. Hope
this helps,

Mike
VE7MKF

>On Friday 26 April 2002 09:32 pm, charlie carroll wrote:
> Can someone point me to the commands to put an external TNC into
> and out of KISS mode?
>
> Thanks
>
> Charlie, k1xx

KISS mode

[charlie carroll]

Can someone point me to the commands to put an external TNC into and out 
of KISS mode?

Thanks

Charlie, k1xx

Re: KISS mode

[Bob Nielsen]

It depends somewhat on the TNC.  For TAPR clones, the following
applies: 

You get into KISS mode with

KISS ON
RESTART

To get out of KISS mode is a bit more complicated.  You need to send
the three bytes $C0, $FF, $C0 (192, 255, 192) to the TNC to restore
normal operation.  I've seen DOS programs to do this, but haven't run
across anything for Linux.  It shouldn't be too hard to write code to
to do it, however.  You can, of course, reset the TNC completely by
disconnecting the battery for several minutes.

Some firmware versions have a tendency to drop out of KISS mode.  I
prefer to use a KISS-only EPROM, such as the JKISS image from the
G8BPQ package.  These only exist for TAPR clones, unfortunately.

Bob, N7XY

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:32:00PM -0400, charlie carroll wrote:
> Can someone point me to the commands to put an external TNC into and
> out of KISS mode?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charlie, k1xx

Re: KISS mode

[Tomi Manninen]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> To get out of KISS mode is a bit more complicated.  You need to send
> the three bytes $C0, $FF, $C0 (192, 255, 192) to the TNC to restore
> normal operation.  I've seen DOS programs to do this, but haven't run
> across anything for Linux.

kissparms -x

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Re: KISS mode

[Richard Adams]

On Friday 26 April 2002 22:27, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> It depends somewhat on the TNC.  For TAPR clones, the following
> applies:
>
> You get into KISS mode with
>
> KISS ON
> RESTART
>
> To get out of KISS mode is a bit more complicated.  You need to send
> the three bytes $C0, $FF, $C0 (192, 255, 192) to the TNC to restore
> normal operation.  I've seen DOS programs to do this, but haven't run
> across anything for Linux.  It shouldn't be too hard to write code to
> to do it, however.  You can, of course, reset the TNC completely by
> disconnecting the battery for several minutes.

G4KLX included -x in kissparms to do just that.
'man kissparms'

-- 
Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/

Re: KISS mode

[Randy N6ABM]

On Friday 26 April 2002 09:32 pm, charlie carroll wrote:
> Can someone point me to the commands to put an external TNC into
> and out of KISS mode?
>
> Thanks
>
> Charlie, k1xx
>

For Kantronics: 
 INterface KISS
 RESet
(Capitalized letters required)

Randy