LINUX WINFAST NAVIGATOR AND USB DONGLE GPS VIA WINE

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LINUX WINFAST NAVIGATOR AND USB DONGLE GPS VIA WINE

#1 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

On recent .wine installs I find symlinks are no longer necessary for Serial Ports. This is being handled internally by .wine after some recent package upgrades.

But what I want to mention is USB GPS Dongles.

Hot plugging a GPS in Linux causes some magic. Linux sees and names the file (assigning a special number) This being ttyACM rather than ttyUSB. (some distros)
1. Plug in the dongle or USB GPS.
2. From terminal

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 lsusb
and find your device. In my case ttyACM0.
3. Assuming Navigator is installed then

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 cd /.wine/dosdevices
4. Create soft link by

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sudo ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 com7
#-s means soft, com7 is normally available.
5. Run Navigator and set com port to com7 baud to 4800 or ? (your units baud rate)

Latest wine 1.7.20 (2014)(although 1.8 is floating around) Google "how to upgrade" for your system.
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#3 Post by glitch »

Sadlmkr,

I get the same /dev/ttyACMO for an Arduino as the working port. I have to set the baud rate depending on Arduino. I use it as an intermediary when hacking hardware. Its capable of 4800 up to 115000 so far. I havent tried anything above that.
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#4 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

Agree...the dongle runs more than one baud rate. IOW for me I have run gps with 4800 and 9600 with the same stick. Maybe faster....too excited to keep track. GPS no where as good as CF-31 OEM.......just better than a CF-28 sled mount OEM.

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#5 Post by UNCNDL1 »

Lite reading for those wanting to understand the difference.....
https://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2013/03/05 ... evttyacmx/
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#6 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

glitch wrote:Sadlmkr,

I get the same /dev/ttyACMO for an Arduino as the working port. I have to set the baud rate depending on Arduino. I use it as an intermediary when hacking hardware. Its capable of 4800 up to 115000 so far. I havent tried anything above that.
Late thanks for the PM. I appreciate it...very nicely written...I understood most of it. :D

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