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
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,
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
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
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
