Re: Linux's worst enemy
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 12:23 am
The ToughMac video shows google earth on osx running with serial gps.
Not sure how they did it. Either it works out of the box, requires a loadable kernel module or is based on something like http://www.w7ay.net/site/Applications/Serial%20Tools/ .
Never really bothered with Wine ... more of a Parallels/VirtualBox/VMWare kind of guy.
I know you can pass through usb and serial ports to a VirtualBox guest, So I guess that should also work with Parallels.
Why Parallels? Because the OSX integration is very seamless. It even scans the Windows guests registry and extends these programs to be directly assigned to osx file types.
E.g. you click on foo.docx in OSX and the correct Windows tool starts in seamless window mode.
Running a serial NMEA GPS on Linux should not be much of an issue.
The lack of good GPS navigation software was more troublesome to me - now using MapFactor Navigator on Win7 (feels like a beta test version of OSMAnd).
Try gpscat /dev/ttyS2 or gpscat −s 4800N1 /dev/ttyS2 to view the NMEA output of COM3. The second command worked fine for my Leadtek LR9548S module.
Gpscat is part of the http://www.catb.org/gpsd/ toolsuite.
You may have to stop gpsd and/or use sudo in order to get proper access to the serial port, depending on the default /etc/init.d setup for gpsd and file permission/group memberships of your linux distribution.
BR,
Karl Klammer
Not sure how they did it. Either it works out of the box, requires a loadable kernel module or is based on something like http://www.w7ay.net/site/Applications/Serial%20Tools/ .
Never really bothered with Wine ... more of a Parallels/VirtualBox/VMWare kind of guy.
I know you can pass through usb and serial ports to a VirtualBox guest, So I guess that should also work with Parallels.
Why Parallels? Because the OSX integration is very seamless. It even scans the Windows guests registry and extends these programs to be directly assigned to osx file types.
E.g. you click on foo.docx in OSX and the correct Windows tool starts in seamless window mode.
Running a serial NMEA GPS on Linux should not be much of an issue.
The lack of good GPS navigation software was more troublesome to me - now using MapFactor Navigator on Win7 (feels like a beta test version of OSMAnd).
Try gpscat /dev/ttyS2 or gpscat −s 4800N1 /dev/ttyS2 to view the NMEA output of COM3. The second command worked fine for my Leadtek LR9548S module.
Gpscat is part of the http://www.catb.org/gpsd/ toolsuite.
You may have to stop gpsd and/or use sudo in order to get proper access to the serial port, depending on the default /etc/init.d setup for gpsd and file permission/group memberships of your linux distribution.
BR,
Karl Klammer