On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Daniel O'Connor <docon...@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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
