Re: ttyUSB monitoring (CONTINUED)

2008-01-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 14:08 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 11:29 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: It's using NMEA-0183. On Jan 12, 2008 12:11 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: figuring out the serial protocol may be a bit ugly. Given Thomas's remark and your example

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-14 Thread Charles G Montgomery
On Monday 14 January 2008,at 07:42 am, you wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 12:37 -0500, Charles G Montgomery wrote: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do you find anything that says it uses a proprietary protocol? It's using NMEA-0183. In case it's of any use, two Linux

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-14 Thread Drew Van Zandt
For USB devices, a small vmware player image of Windows XP is really handy. I keep one around on all my Linux boxes for situations like this. --DTVZ On Jan 14, 2008 9:02 AM, Charles G Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 January 2008,at 07:42 am, you wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-12 at

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 12:17 -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: Lloyd Kvam wrote: I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect data. The serial connection is

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 21:08 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: I Googled for usb sniffer and found Windows stuff. So I added linux and found this, which might be what you're looking for: SNIFFER Hah, thanks for the help. I did not think to use sniffer in my searches. (monitor, dump, even

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 20:08 -0500, Chris wrote: If this will run under WINE or you know someone with a windows box, this is a 14 day trial http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Products/home/usb-monitor.html Good luck, I did find them, but noticed that the download URL was:

RE: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 21:27 -0500, Patrick Klos wrote: You could try portmon from Sysinternals (now Microsoft): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896644.aspx It should log the bytes going between the serial port and the system. Thanks for the pointer. I'm hoping the

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 11, 2008 7:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect data. The serial connection is 115200-n-8-1, but the device

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 11:29 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 7:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect

Re: ttyUSB monitoring (CONTINUED)

2008-01-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
(my fingers went into program-editor-mode and triggered the email send keystroke shortcut) On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 11:29 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 7:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
Lloyd Kvam wrote: I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect data. The serial connection is 115200-n-8-1, but the device does not use the normal command

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-12 Thread Charles G Montgomery
Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do you find anything that says it uses a proprietary protocol? It's using NMEA-0183. In case it's of any use, two Linux programs I've used that have some capabilities for communicating with a GPS are gpsman and gpsbabel. Debian, for example,

Re: ttyUSB monitoring (CONTINUED)

2008-01-12 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 11:29 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: It's using NMEA-0183. On Jan 12, 2008 12:11 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: figuring out the serial protocol may be a bit ugly. Given Thomas's remark and your example format strings, http://www.google.com/search?q=NMEA-0183

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-11 Thread Chris
On 1/11/08, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect data. The serial connection is 115200-n-8-1, but the device does not use

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 11, 2008 7:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping someone here can kick me in the right direction. I Googled for usb sniffer and found Windows stuff. So I added linux and found this, which might be what you're looking for: http://www.linux-usb.org/tools.html -- Ben