Hi Johan.... comments below > > I made a ubuntu 8.04 installation on a pc and yes that make's you > happy :-) > Time and time zone are now working ok. > > Problem now is that the fldigi is working ok ( did make psk31 qso) > but not communicating with pskmail. > > my steps where: > 1) i did download pskmail-1.0.3d.tar.gz and made an install, did > start pskmail without first starting fldigi not working. ( that is > obvious because there is not fldigi to do the communication) > 2) did download fldigi 2.05 and instal, run fldigi ( that was working > ok made psk31 qso). pskmail-1.0.3d is only working with fldigi-3.04xx fldigi 3.04 contains a new interface for pskmail, and important bug fixes. You find it at www.w1hkj,com/ateam As this is alpha code it has not been officially released. 5) run fldigi 3.0 and make psk31 qso, start pskmail. In pskmail i > could not see any text being received by fldigi but when i did try to > make a connection with pskmail the transmitter would be put to tx but > i could not see any tx text in fldigi or in pskmail. the monitor in pskmail reads the fldigi log file. Switch on logging in fldigi (files->logfile) The twerminal window gets its infirmation fromm the tcp/ip interface. > 6) downloaded pskmail 1.0.3f and fldigi 3.04 from the hermes server. > make an install, run fldigi and make psk31 qso. > 7) start pskmail 1.0.3f, now i could again not see any trafic that > was received by fldigi in pskmail. ( i did receive to dx4xi-8 with > the weather info). Also when i did try to make contact with a sever > the transmitter would not turn to TX. > I could see in the pskmail directory the file snd that did have the > text that would be send out, but somehow it did not get to fldigi or > was displayed in pskmail. > > 2 questions. > Is it normal that PSKmail does not display any monitor information ?. > How can pskmail and fldigi work together ?. kill all instances of fldigi and psk_arq.pl then restart fldigi 3.04 then start pskmail. pskmail will automatically start the socket interface. 73, Rein CT3/PA0R/P, CS95A -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com