[Xastir] Xastir doesn't recognize the GPS serial port

Andrew Rich vk4tec at tech-software.net
Mon Aug 21 09:21:40 PDT 2017


LINUX serial ports

1. Unplug you device
2. ls -lrt /dev
3. Plug in your device
4. ls -lrt /dev
5. Spot the device for example /dev/ttyUSB0
6. sudo stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0
7. Note com speed
8. cat /dev/ttyUSB0
9. Apply to xastir device name /dev/ttyUSB0
10. Apply speed 

Good luck

Andrew 

Sent from my iPhone

> On 22 Aug 2017, at 2:13 am, Menga <giuseppe.menga at polito.it> wrote:
> 
> This is a question related to Linux more than to Xastir.
> My GPS device ha a special serial/USB converter so that the system see it in the dev/serial as ttyACM0.
> On windows I have to run a script provided by the developer .inf as a driver.
> Linux sees the device as a serial port, but Xastir with port configurated as ttyACM0 doesn't receive the NMEA sentences.
> Any suggestion?
> Giuseppe
> IZ1GCL
> 
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