baycomusb

Driver for the HB9JNX USB packet modem

• Version recorded: 0.10
• Categories: device-support, soundcard-modems
• Upstream: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/baycomusb

What it does

Drives the Baycom USB packet modem and presents it to the AX.25 stack. The USB sibling of the EPP modem, and the one with a fighting chance of connecting to a current machine.

Why you would want it

Only if you have the hardware. Carried for the same reason as baycomepp: the device exists and an operator holding one should find an entry rather than a gap.

Before it will work

A Baycom USB modem, and permission to open its USB device -- which means a udev rule rather than root.

How it installs

• apt: baycomusb

Known problems

Long unmaintained: the version is 0.10 and Debian's revisions are all that have changed in many years. The Blend marks it hardware-specific and Suggests rather than Recommends. As with the EPP modem, a sound-card TNC is the answer for anything new.

Keeping it current

• probe: apt policy
• strategy: apt_upgrade

Where to get help with the software itself

Thomas Sailer, HB9JNX. No live upstream page is declared; the tracker is cited rather than a guess.

Source: catalog/packages/baycomusb.yaml