Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:16:39 -0500 From: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Pim Bliek <pim.bliek@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB GPS mouse in Wine Message-ID: <5f67a8c40912132216p577fd75bqb329654f6e3b60ab@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912141142.41897.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <fc1af19c0912131447i6f652538g332f65f0222b14c@mail.gmail.com> <200912141142.41897.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>wrote: > 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? > It seems that a "GPS mouse" is a GPS receiver that is the size and shape of a computer mouse --- although only rather approximately. It's a horrid term The first time I heard it, I considered for a moment if someone was using a GPS receiver as the sensor for a mouse (rather than a ball or laser optics). I only considered this for a moment... it's obviously not possible. I found that this program worked - > http://www.visualgps.net/VisualGPS/Download/Download.html > > Can you get it to talk to your device? > Isn't the key going to be finding one of the USB serial interfaces that work? For all the technology in a GPS, they communicate via serial protocols (s.t. the bluetooth ones present a serial profile --- that's how you get your bluetooth GPS working). Too bad there isn't a small number of standard USB serial protocols ... like bluetooth.
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