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Re: Linux Recommendation - Work is a RHEL/Windows Shop
Joel,
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I ran into the Broadcom driver's problem when installing Ubuntu on an iMac.? ?Not sure about RHEL, but there was an install option in Ubuntu that said something like install optional drivers.? Without checking that box, I had no wifi drivers when Ubuntu booted.? If you can find that choice on RHEL, the drivers are available but have to be enabled. Otherwise, you can do what I did the first time and sneakernet your Mac over to your cable modem, which wasn't very convenient.
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Mike, N5QAW
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Re: fldigi 4.2.06.15 developmen t version availabe for testing
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThe answer is yes.? You can find that information in this file:On 12/14/24 04:20, Asbesto, IW9HGS via
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Hello, does this version include the recent WEFAX fix to set 288/576 etc etc? |
Ah, I got it. But it opens the same menu. It was way better before... but ok :) On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 1:04?PM gabriele zaverio <iw9hgs@...> wrote:
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73 DE IW9HGS |
Ehm, I can't understand where to left-click :( On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 4:51?PM Dave, W1HKJ via <w1hkj=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Fldigi Lockup
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMaybe I'm doing something wrong in the build.I'm thinking of using 73 Linux from KM4ACK. Ron NY3J On 12/13/2024 8:04 PM, Richard Jackson,
KD8NOA via groups.io wrote:
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Re: Fldigi Lockup
Hi Ron, That was the best I have.?? If it is running at 100%, then it is looping on something.? It would probably be helpful to tell the author which module and the instruction addresses that it is looping through but I have no idea at all how to figure that out.?? Richard Jackson kd8noa |
Re: Fldigi Lockup
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThanks Richard,During a net I usually open Fldigi then I open Flmsg to create traffic for the net. I don't use the list feature and don't have transfer direct checked. I usually leave the Flmsg's that I receive open so I can read them during the net. I also have Flamp open. I forget exactly which version the lockups started to happen. The two Pennsylvania nets on Sunday gets pretty busy. Also, the FM net on the local repeater gets busy so Fldigi gets quite a workout. When I run the top program after the lockup it shows Fldigi running at more than 100% and stays that way until I reboot. 73, Ron NY3J On 12/13/2024 6:28 PM, Richard Jackson,
KD8NOA via groups.io wrote:
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Re: Fldigi Lockup
Hi Ron, I run a RPI 4b running bookworm.? I had fldigi lockups.?? Are you opening FLMSG and leaving it open?? That gave me DIGI lockups.? I have configured FLDIGI? to open FLMSG upon receipt of a message.? DIGI hasn't locked up on me since I made that change.?? My digi config: configure | configure dialog | misc | NBEMS data file interface enable, open message folder not enabled, transfer direct not enabled, open with flmsg enabled, open in browser not enabled, the flmsg: field has the path to FLMSG executable, timeout is 2 seconds.?? if digi receives a message flmsg will open.? If I have a checksum?error, there will be a dialog box for that and the file name will be badfile.? If a second message arrives, I get a new flmsg window.? I had maybe 8 or 9 this morning, some with checksum errors.? If I want to save a badfile,?I scroll through the "received messages" window until I find the file name then save with that.?? Richard Jackson On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 8:56?PM Ron NY3J via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote: I am running Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon and Fldigi version 4.2.06.09 and I'm |
Re: Fldigi Lockup
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:43 PM, Bob Cameron, VK2YQA wrote:
Thanks Bob, that gives me a few things to look at. I also started flrig from a shell prompt, as you suggested. Now I'll just have to wait. :D ?
There's nothing in cron.d or cron.daily that looks potentially harmful, but I'll have to investigate them a bit more to be sure.
You know, that reminds me of something in the past about ModemManager mucking with the serial ports. A couple of years ago, while hunting down a different problem on a different system, I did turn it off at one point but I don't remember if it helped or not. I'll have to look into that some more. ?
Thanks!
Steve K4RVA |
Re: fldigi 4.2.06.15 developmen t version availabe for testing
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi. Thanks for the new alpha to test. Built without errors on LMDE 6 (Faye) on an i5 based platform. Sadly, the AFC button is still permanently greyed out and unusable.? While the AFC function itself is also permanently active in many if not all of the MFSK derived modes.? (As can be seen by the feint green colour in the button's "LED" indicator.) This was not the case with 4.2.06 (release version) or the 4.2.06.07 alpha.? But from 4.2.06.09 and later, it is a problem. I never saw '.08 to test.
Also, the RV button, still often needs toggling (slow double
click) after the program is first launched, so that the indicator
agrees with the state of the RV function, or the software is
set/synchronised to follow the indicated state.? I know others in
the UK have seen this particular wrinkle, especially some who
partake in the RAYNET HF nets, using recent builds of Fldigi. David M0TGC has confirmed this with version 4.2.05 too.? It has
caused utter confusion at times on the low bands attempting to get
multiple stations to communicate using Olivia, several who do not
use CAT control, either out of preference, or their radios do not
support it.
73. Dave G0WBX.
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Re: Fldigi Lockup
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Steve A way out possibility.. At 30-60 minutes it may be another process (like from cron) doing "something" that affects. Might be worth a look at syslog or journal display when it next freezes. Also cat your $HOME/.xsession-errors or just run flrig in a console window. I had some strange flrig problems when the WiFi/cell modem kept
resetting, I am assuming from the "interface up/down" scripts.
That could have been proven by turning off the external network
connection for a while. Cheers Bob VK2YQA On 14/12/24 04:29, Steve K4RVA via
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Re: Fldigi Lockup
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Steve,For HF, using my IC-7300, I use Rigcat. For FM, using my Kenwood TM-V71a, I'm using a Digi Rig with hardware PTT. For a while I was thinking something with rig control or USB Audio Codec sound interface but the other day I was using a Web SDR and using Pulse Audio monitor to route the audio to Fldigi and Fldigi froze on me. It is frustrating because there is no pattern so I don't know where to start troubleshooting it. 73, Ron NY3J On 12/13/2024 12:29 PM, Steve K4RVA via
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Re: Fldigi Lockup
Hi Ron,
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What are you using for PTT/CAT control?
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I have also been having problems recently running Flrig + Fldigi (and also JS8Call) on Linux Mint 22. Sorry I don't have any answers for you, just wanted to add a "me too".
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- Linux Mint 22 (kernel 6.8.0-50-generic)
- Flrig 2.0.05.85 and Fldigi 4.2.04.16 compiled per the sourceforge wiki linked from w1hkj.com
- JS8Call v2.2.1-devel installed via apt from the Linux Mint repository
- FTDI USB-to-serial interface, Sabrent USB-audio interface
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I haven't quite figured out the pattern yet, but it seems that after about 30 to 60 minutes of not transmitting that Flrig will not respond then next time I try to transmit. This has happened when using Fldigi and JS8Call. I don't remember Fldigi locking up, I will have to do some more observing to see.
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I wonder if anyone can point us in the direction of a logfile or something to look at when this happens?
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Cheers,
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Re: Linux Recommendation - Work is a RHEL/Windows Shop
Is that a 43xx Broadcom chipset Joel? Opensuse Tumbleweed has a kernel module for that chipset.
I have never had any issues with printers or the printing subsystem. You might want to look at Tumbleweed. It's a rolling release, stable but rolling. It rolls fast enough and updates or bugfixes get pushed quickly. It's got tons of Official Build Service 3rd party repos for radio and many other things. And I run a BTRFS file system here with /home on a separate XFS partition. That allows for easy snapshot rollback, hardly ever needed but there. And it's got a great user community, Discord, forums, Bugzilla, etc. I've been using Tumbleweed for years and I can't say enough good things about it. It's one of the hidden gems of the Linuxverse. I run Plasma 6 (KDE) on the Wayland compositor here and it's been running great. Of course you can use any of the other DE too. It's rpm based and Fedora like so you'd likely feel at home. Rick Kunath, K9AO |
Re: Linux Recommendation - Work is a RHEL/Windows Shop
Since I posted this, I have installed several distros. In no particular order:
1. Mint 22 with Cinnamon 2. Mint 22 with KDE
3. Fedora with Gnome
4. Fedora with KDE
5. Fedora Everything with KDE (okay, technically, this is the same as #4 but see below).
6. Arch with KDE
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These have been installed on an early 2014 MacBook Air except for #1. It's installed on an early 2015 MacBook Air and is my Linux baseline (my main computer is still running macOS 15.1.1).
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Fedora Everything with KDE is currently running on my 2014 MBA.
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As I think most on this group would say and, in fact, what I have found to be true except for a niche of users, use what you will enjoy. Here's what I have found:
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All have their little quirks... For example, on both Fedora and Arch, I had to find and install the Broadcom wireless drivers for the built-in wireless card on my MBA. Having a USB wireless NIC is a necessity if installing one of these distros on a MBA. After having done this a few times, this is a trivial task. For Mint, the driver is included with the ISO but you still have to enable it. It isn't enabled by default.
As for DEs, I like the look of KDE but not the bloat; hence, Fedora Everything - you pick what you want. However, not knowing what everything is, I still wound up with stuff I didn't want. I realize I can remove it. Installing KDE on Arch gave me a minimalist KDE install which I liked. I'll say this, if you like running a dark or "twilight" DE, Linux DEs get this way better than either macOS or Windows. I don't have enough choice for contrast with either macOS or Windows but, just wow! I can tweak my Linux DE just the way I like it. I like the running release philosophy of Arch. Install that using btrfs (if I my minimal understanding of btrfs is accurate) and I think you have a pretty good system if you can get past the initial install / configuration. I did run into a couple of issues in Arch that I couldn't easily resolve - printing to my network printer and I installed JS8Call before any FT-mode software. I am going to revisit both now that I've realized I have a second SSD I can use for Arch. I know better than installing JS8Call before WSJTX on my Mac so I should have known this about Linux - that's my fault. When I tried to fix it by removing JS8Call, I had several debug files that stopped the WSJTX install. When I tried to remove them or rename them, they were rw locked and I wanted to test something else anyway. While I'm more familiar with apt, I like pacman and dnf (in that order) much better. I just learned to search pacman (and yay for AUR) when playing with Arch. This carried over to dnf when I started playing with Fedora. I am sure there are similar switches with apt but I wasn't forced to learn them. One thing I have *not* played with is a tiling manager. I've only ever played with floating Windows GUIs but I usually wind up "tiling" them anyway so I really want to try one. It seems as though there are a lot of videos about Hyprland but I know there are others. I *really* like the ability to "roll-my-own" when it comes to Linux. While I much prefer macOS over Windows, that ability really isn't easy in either of those OSs. Regardless, this has been a fun journey and I was finally able to try Arch (I've tried in the past and failed). If you've ever wanted to try Arch, find "Bread on Penguins" on YouTube. She has a video that's almost an hour long that goes through the installation of Arch. She has a follow-up video on installing a DE. Joel, W4JBB |
Fldigi Lockup
Dave and other Linux users,
I am still having issues with my Linux Fldigi setup. I figured I would take another crack at trying to resolve this. I am running Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon and Fldigi version 4.2.06.15 and I'm running into a problem. After a bit of operation Fldigi will lock up. When I check top it tells me Fldigi is using more than 100% CPU utilization. I have to kill and restart Fldigi. I have 7.7 gig of memory and 1 Terra Byte of storage. I do use the WIKI how to section on building. It looks like it builds okay but I do see some messages about Pipewire. I guess the newer Linux loads use Pipewire now instead of Pulseaudio. I can't be sure but my problems may have started since I updated Linux Mint to 22 using Pipewire. Do you think I'm having issues building the program myself. I don't see a distribution I can use that's already built 73, Ron NY3J |
CTY-3439 Country Files - 13 December 2024
The Country (CTY) Files were updated on 13 December 2024:
For installation instructions, start at: Hover your mouse over the word Contest in the menu, then select the software you are using. To install the file, follow the link to your software at the top of the page. If you are interested in a bigger CTY.DAT for everyday logging, you can get it here: Note that the release notes (and Version Entity) for this larger file are different than what is shown below. There is a separate link to them. As a reminder, there is an RSS feed of the latest country file announcements: Here are the release notes: 13 December 2024 (CTY-3439) VER20241213, Version entity is Lebanon, OD Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: * 3V8CB/YOTA is Tunisia, 3V * A61Q/ND is United Arab Emirates, A6 * IZ1KHY/IA0 is Antarctica, CE9 * EA2EZ/P and EA9ADD/P are both Spain, EA * TX24HAID is New Caledonia, FK * TX5NH is French Polynesia, FO * TX100REF and TX7WW are both Marquesas Islands, FO/m * IQ0SS/P and IR0WWA are both Sardinia, IS * KI4JFX is United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU zone 7 * W0RXC and WA2VAM are both United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU zone 8 * K9OM is United States, K in CQ zone 5, ITU zone 8 * N3QD is Mariana Islands, KH0 * AE7N is Hawaii, KH6 * KG5FTR and N0XS are both Alaska, KL * N3UCQ is Puerto Rico, KP4 * LU3DXG/D and LU9XBA/L are both Argentina, LU * LU1WL/W is Argentina, LU in ITU zone 16 * R1941MB, R1941OM, R2025NY and UE25NY are all European Russia, UA * R0U, R0V, R9PS/0, RA0U, RA0V, RC0U, RC0V, RD0U, RD0V, RE0U, RE0V, RF0U, RF0V, RG0U, RG0V, RJ0U, RJ0V, RK0U, RK0V, RL0U, RL0V, RM0U, RM0V, RN0U, RN0V, RO0U, RO0V, RQ0U, RQ0V, RT0U, RT0V, RU0U, RU0V, RV0U, RV0V, RW0U, RW0V, RX0U, RX0V, RY0U, RY0V, RZ0U, RZ0V, U0U, U0V, UA0U, UA0V, UB0U, UB0V, UC0U, UC0V, UD0U, UD0V, UE0U, UE0V, UF0U, UF0V, UG0U, UG0V, UH0U, UH0V, UI0U and UI0V are all in ITU zone 33, not ITU zone 32 * RK4PA/9 is Asiatic Russia, UA9 in ITU zone 20 * RX9WT/P is Asiatic Russia, UA9 in CQ zone 16 * UA0KBG/9 is Asiatic Russia, UA9 in CQ zone 18, ITU zone 32 Removed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: * 3D22 and 3D2V in Rotuma Island, 3D2/r * 3V8CB/J in Tunisia, 3V * 9M4CRP in East Malaysia, 9M6 * BA4DL/0 in China, BY * EC5AHA and EC5AHA/8 in Canary Islands, EA8 * TO2X in Guadeloupe, FG * GB5BRC in Northern Ireland, GI * GB0GDS, GB2ZL and GB6WL in Scotland, GM * GB2GFS and GB5CJ in Wales, GW * IQ0PM in Sardinia, IS * K5SPP and KH2D in United States, K * KN6QVA, N6LTM, N6LZL and W6GKL in Hawaii, KH6 * KA7TOM and KG7ORS in Alaska, KL * K8RF in US Virgin Islands, KP2 * OZ5LKO/JOTA in Denmark, OZ * PA1ASP/J, PA1AW/J, PA3EFR/J, PI4BG/J and PI9TP/J in Netherlands, PA * SV2JAO/J and SZ2TSL/J in Greece, SV * SV2ASP/A in Mount Athos, SV/a * R50AWL in European Russia, UA * R0UT, R0WA/P, R100IR, RD9U/0, RN0F, RW0UM, RX0TX/P and UA0UV in Asiatic Russia, UA9 * VE2DXY in Canada, VE * HF0POL in South Shetland Islands, VP8/h Though I am subscribed to this reflector so that I can make these announcements, I do not see most messages posted to it. If you have any comments or corrections to the country file, please contact me directly. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, |