On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:25:51 -0500, I Beartooth wrote: > I have been trying to get certain suites of proprietary software usable > under CrossoverOffice (CXO) under FC4 on four machines. All are topo map > stuff, interfacing with a GPS.[...] > One sine qua non is still lacking. Neither one is able to interface with > a GPS. (Until they do, I have to keep a dedicated machine running XP > <snarl>.) [...] > At this point I'm pretty well out of ideas. I hope somebody here may > know enough about both XP and FC4 (or about CXO under FC4, or something) > to get a handle on opening up either the serial port the software > expects (It checks at least com1 and com2.) or some channel to a USB > port. > > I do know, btw, that the same software, running under XP on one machine, > against the same serial port, the same GPSs, and the same cables, *does* > connect and interchange data successfully. It also did, years ago, under > W98. So I don't *think* the hardware is the problem. I asked the same things on grc.techtalk.linux, from news.grc.com. Two suggestion there are these, both from John DeCarlo : > 2.b.1 There is a program out there, which may well be in the Fedora > repositories, called "gpsd". This is a daemon to talk to the GPS > device. I would play with this first, to make sure that Linux can talk > to the GPS device appropriately. The only gpsd I could get from "yum whatprovides gpsd" was a bunch of debugger stuff relating to KDE development -- and I don't even run KDE. I've asked if he means something in gpsdrive -- but, alas!, I've looked at that, and it's well beyond my competence even to install (and is geared to other uses than mine, anyway). > 3. CXO must support some way of converting a Linux /dev/tty... to a > Windows COM1. You probably need to do some research on configuring > this properly, once you know exactly what /dev/tty... your GPS is using > on the machine. My guess would be that after CXO is properly > configured, your mapping software will be able to talk to the GPS device. MY knowledge is not up to telling whether this last -- which sounds to me like a translation into terms more apt at least than XP's -- is really a question for CXO, or something for Fedora to do before CXO even launches. So I'll post this both places, with my apologies, and hope to strike a spark of interest in at least one of them. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert FC4; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3-7; CXO 5.0.1 Galeon 2.0.0, Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.51, Firefox 1.0.7 Remember I have little idea what I am talking about.
