David,
I was finally able to see what you said by clicking "view source".
I have spent a lot of time on this and have read the documentation...over and over and over again. I have read many other threads. I've tried many things. I've exhaustively done my homework. I know how forums work. I wouldn't bother you but I don't know where else to look for an answer anymore. I'm here because I am desperate.
I have answered most of your questions previously in this thread. It seems like I'm just chasing my tail here. Not that I don't appreciate the help, the forum (Yahoo) just doesn't seem to be very efficient. I really don't feel like typing everything over again just to add more clutter to this thread...but here goes...
1. I am setting up a receive-only igate. No transmit.
2. I am using a Syba USB sound card. It indicates CMedia CM119 on the package. This sound card is recommended in the document I list here in #5.
3. I have tried putting an isolation transformer and also a capacitor to block the 5 volts at the sound card input, but it did not help.
4.? I am running version 1.3
5. I've been following what has been done before in the document at this link...
6. Pulse audio should have been removed when I followed the above document. I wouldn't know how to confirm that.
7. I'm using a radio shack scanner that performed perfectly as a receive only igate on my laptop PC for months.
8. As warned about in the document, I am not using a USB hub.
9. When I put audio into the microphone jack on the sound card (using either a microphone or my scanner), it comes out the speaker jack of the sound card and it sounds very good. I can vary the volume levels using the mixer in Linux so the card is communicating with Linux on some level.
10. When I type "arecord -l", it lists my C-Media card as "card 1".
11. I have attached my configuration file and the text copied from the Direwolf terminal when I start the program.
One thing that is suspicious to me is that the Direwolf terminal shows "stdin" rather than my sound card as "device for receive".
Again, thanks for your help.
Randy