USB GPS by DeLorme

[Matthew Carpenter]

And if you could figure out how to get the USB version working by tomorrow 12pmEST I would appreciate it :)

A collegue and I are leading the local Fox News anchor on a Wardrive.  While the effects of simple numbers are immense, I wanted to plot the accesspoints to drive home just how wide open and known about these networks are...
 
Either way, Kismet works fine and that's the star of the show :)


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:20:09 -0500
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 January 2004 20:57, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > gpsdrive supports the DeLorme Earthmate, but has only confirmed it to work
> > with the Serial version.  I'm attempting to provide a Serial interface to
> > the unit.  I know the bit about watching /var/log/messages but was
> > wondering if there was something in /proc which might be a more precise
> > mechanism.  I wondered if someone out there who knows more about USB in
> > linux than I do might answer.  I wondered if perhaps /dev/usb/??? or
> > /dev/ttyUSB?? might be the default...  As it is the Earthmate shows up as a
> > "hid" device and appears to be assigned to /dev/usb/hiddev0 but I've been
> > thus far unable to access it there...
> >
> >
> 
> lsusb?     cat /proc/scsi/scsi ?
> 
> Hmmm  I have both serial and a USB  earthmates.  Might play around with this.  
> Didn't know there was anything that would use it under Linux.
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:42:24 -0500
> >
> > Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 14:11, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > > > How do I tell how to access a new USB device?
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking through Kinfocenter and wondering why they don't include
> > > > that information in the USB section (like, device to access it.. a
> > > > duh!) And I got to wondering how they'd implement that.  Does anyone
> > > > have a superior understanding of USB and wish to take a stab at
> > > > determining what device to access a USB device through?  For this
> > > > example, use 2.4.21, or SuSE 9.0pro.
> > > >
> > > > The challenge is set.  Thanks
> > > > Matt
> > > >
> > > > ps.  The need is to access a USB GPS from DeLorme, called the
> > > > Earthmate.
> > >
> > > Can I ask what you are going to use for software to deal with the
> > > Earthmate?
> > >
> > >
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