~Toughbooktalk~

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 and find your device. In my case ttyACM0.
3. Assuming Navigator is installed then 4. Create soft link by #-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.

groovy..

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.

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.

Thanks,

J'd

Lite reading for those wanting to understand the difference.....
https://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2013/03/05 ... evttyacmx/
yes I'm alive

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.

Happy New Year.

Jeff