[Linux] USB and GPS and TclTk
Adam Glass
linux@flux.org
Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:11:24 -0400
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As it happens, folks where I work use USB to serial adapters under Linux.
One from a company named Sewell is reported to work under Fedora and Ubuntu.
Here's a link to another which is reported to work under Ubuntu...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812203018
--Adam
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Steven Benmosh <wordz2u@gmail.com> wrote:
> Several related questions - trying to get a Garmin Geko/eTrex serial
> adapter connected to a USB port, and use GPSman to communicate with the GPS:
>
> 1. Anyone had any luck with a USB to Serial Converters under Linux? I
> bought one from TigerDirect to connect my GPS to a USB slot, and it did not
> even work in Windows, where there was a drivers disk.
>
> 2. Anyone knows how to run GPSMan (written in Tcl/Tk) on OSX? I have
> someone offering me a converter, and I want to try it on a macbook (the only
> computer I have access to right now), and I installed something called Aqua
> which is Tcl/Tk for mac, and it has an interface called Wish, but I still
> can't seem to run anything on it...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Z.
>
> --
> Check out my web site - www.words2u.net
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As it happens, folks where I work use USB to serial adapters under Linux.<div><br></div><div>One from a company named Sewell is reported to work under Fedora and Ubuntu.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a link to another which is reported to work under Ubuntu...</div>
<div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812203018">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812203018</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">--Adam</p>
</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Steven Benmosh <<a href="mailto:wordz2u@gmail.com">wordz2u@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Several related questions - trying to get a Garmin Geko/eTrex serial adapter connected to a USB port, and use GPSman to communicate with the GPS:<br><br>1. Anyone had any luck with a USB to Serial Converters under Linux? I bought one from TigerDirect to connect my GPS to a USB slot, and it did not even work in Windows, where there was a drivers disk.<br>
<br>2. Anyone knows how to run GPSMan (written in Tcl/Tk) on OSX? I have someone offering me a converter, and I want to try it on a macbook (the only computer I have access to right now), and I installed something called Aqua which is Tcl/Tk for mac, and it has an interface called Wish, but I still can't seem to run anything on it...<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Z.<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Check out my web site - <a href="http://www.words2u.net" target="_blank">www.words2u.net</a>
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