[kismac] Re: KisMAC 0.04a GPS Success

  • From: Michael Rossberg <mick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:49:23 +0100

Hey,

this seems to be something keyspan specific. unfortunately i dont have 
one around to test.
did you look into console.app for an error description? kismac should 
throw something out on it. and did you plug everything in before you 
started kismac (it does not handle hotplugging)?

mick

> No joy with my Garmin etrex GPS unit using a KeySpan USB serial adapter
> on an iBook) with the etrex's Main Menu -> Setup -> Interface ->
>   Serial Data Format set to  set to "NMEA In/NMEA Out" (at 4800 baud).
>
> KisMac does seem to identify the correct serial port
> (/dev/tty.USA1911P1.1).
>
> But I get the same message on the Map tab of KisMAC:
>
>      Last Position 0.000000N, 0.000000E @ (null) Not enough sattelites
> in View!
>
> ... whether the Garmin etrex is plugged into the KeySpan or not.
>
> Without KisMAC, I can see the NMEA data coming into that port with
> ZTerm (at 4800 baud).  So the KeySpan USB driver seems to be working
> okay.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 11:11 AM, Robbie Miller wrote:
>
>>
>> GPS seems to work well with my etrex in nmea format
>> Is there a way to export all of the data in tab-delimited format with
>> the gps Latitude and longitude.
>>
>> I have a buggy usb driver that crashes my system when i quit however
>> this happens any other time i access my serial port so i know it is 
>> not
>> kismac.
>>   ROB
>>
>>
>
>
>


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