Hi, I am pretty new to FreeBSD, but experienced in Linux. Currently, I am running a fresh FreeBSD 8.0 on my netbook. I want to use it as a stable platform for my sailing computing needs. But.. I have to use Windows navigation software in conjunction with a GPS mouse via USB, and another USB serial device (a NMEA multiplexer). So far no luck. I have a USB mouse with a profilic chip. Works fine with gpsd, gpsmon etc. It fixes, it displays my location etc. Next step: Wine. I created a link in .wine/dosdevices from /dev/cuaU0 to com5 (just chose one comX). It does not work. I also added the comports to the system.reg, and now I have these comports in my windows app. However, I cannot connect to this com5. Anyone any suggestions on this issue? I did a lot of Google... but did not find anything usefull beyond this point. Seems this works on Linux with Wine, but no clues for getting this working in FreeBSD. Any help greatly appreciated! Lost here... Pim
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Pim Bliek wrote:> Anyone any suggestions on this issue? I did a lot of Google... but > did not find anything usefull beyond this point. Seems this works on > Linux with Wine, but no clues for getting this working in FreeBSD.I have a Bluetooth GPS device and I can talk to it under Wine. I am not really sure what you mean by a GPS mouse.. You mean a USB GPS receiver? I found that this program worked - http://www.visualgps.net/VisualGPS/Download/Download.html Can you get it to talk to your device? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20091214/7a63bfca/attachment.pgp