[nos-bbs] Anyone with JNOS polled KISS (BPQKISS) experience?

[Mark Phillips]

Cracked it!!

Nothing wrong with anything on my PROMS or cables. Turns out my PC
needed RTS/CTS satisfied before it would allow data to flow out to the
TNC.

2 packet nodes now up and running on the same serial port!!

Mark

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Hi George,
> 
> I'm doing RS-232. The units you see on ebay are multi port serial
> devices rather than multi drop kiss emulators. I have a few of these but
> in this situation they won't work.
> 
> In the spirit of ham radio I'm using a Soekris NET4501 wireless network
> router board. It's a 486 with a single serial port, Ethernet and a
> mini-pci socket. If boots from compact flash and can run from 12v.
> 
> As there is no expansion port available to me I'm left with only one
> choice and thats multi drop kiss.
> 
> I'm using Linux rather than <sterile trousers> DOS </sterile trousers>.
> 
> Mark 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 17:38 +0000, George (Skip) VerDuin wrote:
> > Hey Mark, your objective sounds interesting.
> > The bad news is I don't believe I have a contribution for you.
> > 
> > I do have an easy question to clarify my understanding if you can take
> > a moment?
> > 
> > Are you pursuing a RS-232 multi-drop solution, or a RS-435 (I believe)
> > solution?
> > In the 232 case, are you not reproducing what is available on e-bay
> > for ($50?) in the form of a card & chassis?
> > In the 435 case, are you finding computer and TNC equipment supporting
> > the dual standard on their DB- connectors?
> > 
> > What I'm asking is perhaps the lazy way out for me because I have not
> > read the BPQ stuff that certainly contains an answer.
> > 
> > Where my interests converge with yours is in configuring a UNIX vs DOS
> > (I'm presuming yours is DOS) solution to the same problem.
> > In the unix environment, card manufacturers include drivers that bring
> > each 232 port to a device like xtty1, xtty2, xtty3, etc, so each TNC
> > has it's own tty (thus no polled requirement).
> > 
> > AND my interests are pretty remote or "back seat" to your own so
> > please don't exert much effort in dealing with my answer...
> > I am in the search phase of my interests and I also have not
> > determined if my card has drivers available for my platform.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 10:14 -0400, Mark Phillips wrote: 
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > 
> > > After my last post I was able to dig up some stuff on polled KISS but
> > > I'm unable to get it going.>>SNIP<<
> > 
> > 73
> > de Skip k8rra k
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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