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If you startup Direwolf with a KISS pseudo terminal for connecting another KISS packet app through Direwolf, you probably also need to run kissattach and mkiss to attach to the pseudo terminal. You can do this manually, but after doing this a few times, I put together this script to grep for the returned /dev/pts/x …
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Some rough notes on getting this combination working. This is my first attempt in getting the Pat / wlk2-go Winlink client working on a Raspberry Pi. I’m using: Direwolf as a packet soundcard modem ax25 as the connection between the Pat Winlink client and Direwolf a Rigblaster Advantage, as a USB soundcard interface between the …
Direwolf has a number of tuneable properties – by default after installing and configuring the basics, your callsign etc, it normally ‘just works’. I’ve been experimenting setting up Direwolf and PiLinBPQ as a BBS on a Raspberry Pi, and using axcall or LinPac on another Pi with Direwolf to call into the BBS. I have …
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I’ve been playing around recently with setting up some packet radio software on the Raspberry Pi. The next thing I was interested in getting working was a BPQ32 node with BBS and Chat. G8BPQ’s instructions here are pretty easy to follow. What I got stuck on however was whether BPQ needed or used ax25, and …