ttyUSB monitoring

[Drew Van Zandt]

For USB devices, a small vmware player image of Windows XP is really handy.
I keep one around on all my Linux boxes for situations like this.

--DTVZ

On Jan 14, 2008 9:02 AM, Charles G Montgomery <cgm at physics.utoledo.edu>
wrote:

> On Monday 14 January 2008,at 07:42 am, you wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 12:37 -0500, Charles G Montgomery wrote:
> > > "Thomas Charron" <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >   Where do you find anything that says it uses a proprietary
> > > > protocol? It's using NMEA-0183.
> > >
> > > In case it's of any use, two Linux programs I've used that have
> > > some capabilities for communicating with a GPS are "gpsman" and
> > > "gpsbabel".  Debian, for example, has packages for them.
> >
> > Thanks.  I tried those.  They can deal with the tracking logs,
> > BUT only after I've used the windows program to pull the logs off
> > the device.
> >
> With gpsman I can move tracks and waypoints to and from my Magellan
> Meridian GPS.  It may not know how to talk to your unit, though.
> It might be worth trying the Garmin protocol; the docs suggest it
> includes some part of NMEA-0183.
>
> What I can't do, now that my Windows installation has gone belly-up,
> is upload maps to the unit.  ;(
>
> cgm
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