Re: Amateur Radio -> MacOS?

["IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR" <teners@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Curt:

These topics have a way of morfing, and I am trying to keep things focused on
how to get AX.25 KEXT kernel support written, ported, or discussed.

Thanks for the xastir info, but I am hoping more people respond on topic to the
kernel extensions for MacOS I am interested in.


V/R,

Stuart, N3GWG


Quoting "Curt, WE7U" <archer@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:
>
> > I am interested in finding out what efforts (if any) maybe underway with
> regard
> > to trying to get AX.25, and other sorts of Amateur Radio Support for the
> MacOS
> > environment.
> >
> > I saw Bent's announcement, and I wonder if developers of Amateur Radio
> Software
> > under Linux ever consider attempting to try to compile their software
> within an
> > Apple environment (MacOS)?
>
> You mean like Xastir?   http://www.xastir.org
>
> There are ways to use Xastir with a KISS TNC under Solaris, HP/UX,
> MacOSX, Linux, and FreeBSD, without having to set up AX.25
> interfaces.  Of course if you have AX.25 interfaces set up (in Linux
> only), you can use them with Xastir as well.
>
> I know that's not quite what you're asking about, but several of our
> users are running Xastir on OSX and happy with it, so at least for
> APRS you have some options there.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/>     XASTIR: <www.xastir.org>
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>


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