[time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS card, Linux quirk

2012-02-04 Thread Hal Murray
I'm in the habit of using things like: cat /dev/ttyUSB0 when checking out GPS that I expect to send ASCII. When I tried that with my new toy, it went bonkers. In particular, the firmware LED went on, and the NMEA LED switched from blinking to solid on. The data included the stuff I

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS card, Linux quirk

2012-02-04 Thread Don Latham
The CP2102 is featured in Chinese ebay 4 buck usb-232 adapters. The chip suffers from serious bad-driveritis, and I've had to do 'net research to make it useful with various flavors of Windoze. Don Hal Murray I'm in the habit of using things like: cat /dev/ttyUSB0 when checking out GPS that