I have uncovered a little 'gotcha' which was one of the causes of fragility of my mobile xastir setup. The writers of the udev rules for gpsd noted that many gps devices actually used a pl2303 serial to usb chip, and decided to write them into the udev rules at /lib/udev/rules.d/60-gpsd.rules
================================= # udev rules for gpsd # # This file is Copyright (c) 2010 by the GPSD project # BSD terms apply: see the file COPYING in the distribution root for details. # # GPSes don't have their own USB device class. They're serial-over-USB # devices, so what you see is actually the ID of the serial-over-USB chip. # Fortunately, just two of these account for over 80% of consumer-grade # GPS sensors. The gpsd.hotplug wrapper script will tell a running gpsd # that it should look at the device that just went active, because it # might be a GPS. # =============================== I found this gem because I wanted to set my /dev/ttyACMx device to autostart on gpsd, and was then able to comment out all the pl2303 entries because I have a pl2303 serial to usb device connecting my radio to the computer. _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
