N9DN
email: n9dn at arrl dot net
Hardware
- ic-92ad
Testing notes
May 22, 2008
I just got D-rats talking to my IC-92ad on Mac OS 10.5 after a lot of frustration (it now keys it up, and another radio sees my transmission). In the comm.py file you need to delete the line that contains "writeTimeout=self.timeout," as Serial init doesn't know what a writeTimeout is. I used fink to install a new copy of python with all the needed parts, as the one supplied by Apple didn't have serial or gtk parts. If you're using fink instead of darwin ports, the hashlib is part of the main python 2.5 package so don't worry that you can't find that package. Also with fink you can install serial2.5 and don't need to worry about adding the symlink like the instructions for using darwin ports has. Hopefully I'll be able to test tomorrow and see if someone else can see my data when I'm closer to other folks with a data cable.
I'm still seeing this message every few seconds:
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Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixmap_new: assertion `(drawable != NULL) || (depth != -1)' failed
If anyone knows what is causing that, please let me know.
September 27, 2008
I watched Dan's presentation at the TAPR/ARRL DCC D-Star evening last night, and thought I'd grab the newest version (0.2.6) and see how it looked. So far, I've found you need 3 more python modules in fink: "geopy" "BeautifulSoup" and "simplejson". There's also a difference in running it with "python d-rats" and just "d-rats". If I just call "d-rats" it doesn't find the serial module (which is installed and in my path). If I call "python d-rats" it complains "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Assistant'". The Assistant is in a newer version of pygtk, which I'll hopefully be able to update over the hotel wireless.
September 28, 2008
Last night I finally got my fink/X11 install all cleaned up and all the gtk parts up to date, and had no problem getting D-rats 2.7 beta to launch then. Now I just need a to hook up a radio and find someone to try it out with me. I can't wait for Dan's new .app version for us lazy Mac folks that don't keep our development environments up to date.
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