Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: Ah -- how do I use my Deluo hockey puck GPS with Xastir under Kubuntu? I've been using the GPS in Windows XP, but I don't know how to configure the GPS at all under Kubuntu. Haven't used Kubuntu, specifically, but if the right driver is there it should show up as something like /dev/cu.usbserial. The exact name will depend on the driver and the OS. Check your /var/log/messages file, just after you insert the GPS. You may need to do some digging around for the right driver... the Deluo's typically integrate a fairly common Serial to USB controller. I've been able to use them on other flavors of Linux and MacOS X. This post on slashdot: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/23/2050206 indicates the driver is: USB Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver in Linux. If that doesn't give you what you need, I'd probably take the model number of the specific Deluo GPS you have and do a web search using that and Linux or Kubuntu for keywords. After you get the right device name, with the device plugged in you should be able to test whether you're getting data by doing, for example, using my /dev/cu.usbserial as the name: cat /dev/cu.usbserial or start up a terminal program like minicom and set it to use /dev/cu.usbserial You should, hopefully, start seeing NMEA data from the GPS. Quit out of which ever of those you tried, and fire up Xastir. Go to the interfaces dialog in Xastir. Add an interface of type Serial GPS and use your device name, /dev/cu.usbserial, for example. GPS Serial configs are typically 4800baud, 8-n-1. Hope this gets you going. 73, N8YSZ. -- Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?
Does it look like a regular serial port in XP? And, when you plug it into the linux box, have you done a 'dmesg' and seen what it reports as? gerry Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: Ah -- how do I use my Deluo hockey puck GPS with Xastir under Kubuntu? I've been using the GPS in Windows XP, but I don't know how to configure the GPS at all under Kubuntu. Thanks, Earl KD5XB ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas AM University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX 979.862.3983 MAIL: AATLT, 3139 TAMU Physical: 1700 Research Parkway, Suite 160, College Station, TX 77843-3139 ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?
Something additional...when you do the dmesg look, also do a lsusb run from the command line. dmesg will tell you if the USB dongle bound or not - lsusb is sterile. If the USB handler does not recognize the vendor/product id's, it won't work. The unit should show up as a comm port if it registers. If it does not register, then the kernel will have to be patched to recognize the new id's and hardware. 73 from 807, Richard, N6NKO --- Gerry Creager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it look like a regular serial port in XP? And, when you plug it into the linux box, have you done a 'dmesg' and seen what it reports as? gerry Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: Ah -- how do I use my Deluo hockey puck GPS with Xastir under Kubuntu? I've been using the GPS in Windows XP, but I don't know how to configure the GPS at all under Kubuntu. Thanks, Earl KD5XB ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas AM University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX 979.862.3983 MAIL: AATLT, 3139 TAMU Physical: 1700 Research Parkway, Suite 160, College Station, TX 77843-3139 ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Xastir on a handheld
There are some hand held devices (such as a Palm) that can run some flavor of Linux, right? Are there any that are big enough to compile and run Xastir on? Anyone tried it? Anyone have a recommendation for which hand held device to investigate for this purpose? -- William KI4HDU ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?
About the sequencing, if you have unique ID's to your USB components, one could hack the hotplug/udev scripts to steer the unique ID to a particular device name. I did it a long time ago for a M$ GPS dongle but I do not remember how to do it. 73 from 807, Richard, N6NKO Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:38:12AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 18:09 -0600, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: Ah -- how do I use my Deluo hockey puck GPS with Xastir under Kubuntu? I've been using the GPS in Windows XP, but I don't know how to configure the GPS at all under Kubuntu. Below is an excerpt from my /var/log/messages file after plugging the Deluo GPS in - the line that ends with pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 is the device you enter when you configure your GPS. So I entered /dev/ttyUSB0 in my Configure GPS window in Xastir. You have to change your permissions to read/write for that port. I'm using Fedora 6 so you may have to browse a bit to find the Kubuntu settings. Actually, on Ubuntu/Kubuntu, you are probably already set up with permissions; by default, serial ports (including USB/Serial adapters) get set to group ownership of dialout, and in general when you set yourself up with an account on installation of the system it adds you to that group. So really all you need to do is go into Xastir, add a serial GPS, and use /dev/ttyUSB0 as the port (if that's what it says it connected to in /var/log/messages). If you add more than one USB serial device (e.g. a TNC) you might start to have trouble when you insert the devices in a different order (i.e. this time it might come in as ttyUSB0 and next time as ttyUSB1). There are ways you can assure that any USB device attached always gets the same name, but I haven't ever bothered to figure it out --- I usually only have one USB serial device attached at a time, so they're all always /dev/ttyUSB0. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit! --- The Tick ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
