Hi Rick,

I expect your P-III CPU is doing just fine. I had a similar problem with gpredict seemingly locking up during a pass when driving my rotor. The problem was apparently a lack of a response from my controller to a polling operation (which, being a home-brew device, I never bothered to implement). Changing the timeout to 1 effectively disabled that feature, with no apparent ill effects.

You might be having the same problem, but with the rig control program. Try adding -C timeout=1 to the rigctl command line, and see if that works.

Good luck,

Greg KO6TH

Richard Lawn wrote:

A number of you have tried to help this Linux novice over recent weeks. I did successfully get HamLib, FlDigi and CQrLog all to run and talk to my FT847 using CAT. My attempts to get GPredict to work well though have failed even after compiling and installing the most recent version t A number of you have tried to help this Linux novice over recent weeks. I did successfully get HamLib, FlDigi and CQrLog all to run and talk to my FT847 using CAT. My attempts to get GPredict to work well though have failed even after compiling and installing the most recent version that addresses the earlier FT847 bugs. It now works, talking to the CAT port on my radio however the software locks up while trying to track a satellite pass. I'm thinking as some feared this old Pentium III may just not have enough horse power!

I then tried Wine, thinking I might run it from within Ubuntu to then run theSatPC32.exe. I guess I don't know the correct language to fine the path and call up this exe from my Windows partition. Anyone have any suggestions in this regard?

Thanks to all, I've learned a lot but may have to face the music and find a more modern computer. 73 Rick W2JAZ _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb