I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect data. The serial connection is 115200-n-8-1, but the device does not use the "normal" command sequences.
The Windows software will sometimes work using WINE. I expect that I could reverse engineer the key features if I could monitor the ttyUSB device data stream. So far I've been unable to google anything useful about enabling a serial device monitor (tcpdump for the serial device) that showed the data stream. statserial will show the status pins. I would think that usbserial (pl2303.ko) would have needed a monitor mode when it was developed simply because it is such a synthetic device. I'm hoping someone here can kick me in the right direction. (The tracker connects using a USB cable so I can't use a serial breakout box or any hardware based serial debugging facility.) Thanks. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/profile/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
