That's good to know. I've used the MFJ-1275 before with RedHat 8.0 and it
seemed to work well, but I'll watch for the PTT problem you have described.

Thanks,
Jeff

"Bob Bob" wrote in message
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One last point Jeff

I had problems with the soundmodem/Linux PTT via the serial port and
looking in NG's so did some others. I ended up using the printer port.

I *think* there is a fix for this but havent investigated. My problem was
that the PTT asserted whenever the soundmodem process was started. It
wasnt reversed either. (ie the PTT didnt drop when I tried to TX!)

Cheers Bob

Jeff Camp wrote:
Charles --

Thanks for the pointers to FlexNet and the PICTNC. I started looking
over your tutorial and I think I'll give it a try. I've been working on
getting soundmodem set up up a RedHat 9 system (unsuccessfully) and am in
the process of upgrading the system to Fedora Core 3. Getting soundmodem
to work on that system (along with FBB) was going to be tonight's
project, but I think I'll take a little detour and check out Flex32.

Sorry about the comment on never seeing FlexNet anywhere. After doing a
little research this morning I realized that wasn't an accurate
statement. Put things in perspective, though. I live in Nebraska and you
don't see too much of any kind of packet out here. The FlexNet web sites
I had visited before were a little stale and didn't have any references
to Flex32, so my assumption was that it didn't exist yet.

Thanks again and 73,
Jeff
N0WJP