[Xastir] Re: No communication between Garmin Rino and GPSMan

[Jim Tolbert]

Well Sir... You are the man...

the "chmod 777 /dev/ttyS0" enabled GPSMan to see the Rino which allowed 
Xastir to see the rino packets

So I have collected 129 packets from the RINO.... went out for a walk 
with the Rino ....  GPSMan comes up ever so often ( probably the once 
per minute in the Timing menu)....

But nothing is plotted on the screen.  I have shapefile maps that I can 
see, but no track of the Rino.

Any ideas?

By the way.... what does chmod 777 portname actually do?

Many thanx............. jt

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks, Curt......  Both the Rino and GPSMan are set to Garmin for the
>> data interface and Protocol.    ...... Running GPSMan, I still get
>> Cannot Open Serial Port, but I can see data when running minicom (I did
>> close it with and with out the -o tag to no avail).
>>     
>
> You were running Minicom as root as I recall, which gives you
> permissions to open it.  Most likely your permissions on that port
> are somewhat restrictive.
>
> do "chmod 777 portname" as root, replacing port name with something
> like /dev/ttyS0 (whatever worked in Minicom).
>
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