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