From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 14 06:16:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24B01065781 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:16:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EDA88FC13 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 22so796317eye.9 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:16:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=C+c06bwahK7ZpGzAL9fR1ZE16aaTR5J/KqLhTy6iK3w=; b=Mg4koZzxTFByD+nT6KzGMkH0srqLoafSKeJxfwiX0I/bh2hKYicRjN9UgsJGwRStqR or1gmt9Y7YdOOu2yrW9Uh/PZCBc+FNjw10cNkTQhxBk4lwD4x+UPMXCqpe/3NhagnWpO 8Qo7sJhLA8C082b/faHEi6obt4Vzr2JnhAL4o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=RhqmKbgL0VhtXBemVLlZSff+7BN9fG9H9WHnFc/srtECw3QMa5aVxZTL1j8AIs5bod m+Dc6I91aXS7omCrMtifbWcmwnRjDI6eBYKt0gGRehMTfeSukWuNcGxUu6xJtnDtC29s wyQbjRv0FwO6VhERpXyE5fVaIDqIQnPAaBO64= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.90.79 with SMTP id d57mr137024wef.117.1260771400055; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:16:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200912141142.41897.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200912141142.41897.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:16:39 -0500 Message-ID: <5f67a8c40912132216p577fd75bqb329654f6e3b60ab@mail.gmail.com> From: Zaphod Beeblebrox To: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Pim Bliek , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB GPS mouse in Wine X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:16:41 -0000 On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Daniel O'Connor 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.