Thread: iGO 8 running on 'nix

Hi,
no you can't cat /dev/com5 cause the symlink is created in the winedir

try "cat /home/joggler/.wine/dosdevices/com5"

if this works, you can try something like sirfdemo or else to check if it's an igo problem or wine related.

Thank you Benny, You're a lifesaver. I will test this today and will reply as soon as I check it out. It's very cool you're helping me out.

Thank you,
George

Hello Benny,

Yes, you were right. I can
cat /home/joggler/.wine/dosdevices/com5
and I can see GPS data streaming. I will see if SirfDemo can tell if the problem is in Wine or Igo.

Originally Posted by Gastaroll

Hello Benny,

Yes, you were right. I can
cat /home/joggler/.wine/dosdevices/com5
and I can see GPS data streaming. I will see if SirfDemo can tell if the problem is in Wine or Igo.

Hello again Benni,

Today I tried SirfDemo but nothing, so it seems it's wine related my problem. Could anyone help me how to troubleshoot wine ?

Thanks

try to change usermods to 777 by

"chmod 777 /dev/rfcomm0" as root
or
"sudo chmod 777 /dev/rfcomm0" as user

Hi Benni,
Thank you for your help. I tried to

sudo chmod 777 /dev/rfcomm0

but I am afraid nothing happened. I have tried to chmod rfcomm0 before with no success

Here is the output of

ls -la /dev/rfcomm0

"crwxrwxrwx 1 root dialout 216, 0 2010-12-31 15:08 /dev/refcomm0"

I am sorry this thread turned to be such a pain in the neck, but it is really important to me to figure this out. It is just not right !

Thank you,

George

which wine version are you using?

"wine --version"

Hello,

The WINE version I have installed on my joggler is

wine-1.2

Which version of wine is known to work with IGo ? Should I install any additional files.....like wine tricks (just guessing) or any other ?

Thanks

Hello,
Today I came upon this thread in
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...ry/066867.html
Sorry if I am doing something wrong for posting something from other forum, but I have questions that are related to my problem with Igo and wine.

"1) Pair the receiver with your computer, using the normal desktop
pairing tools.

2) Create an rfcomm binding for the receiver. Get the receiver's
Bluetooth MAC address, and put an entry into /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf
like this:

rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;

# Bluetooth address of the device
device DE:EA:BE:EF:FA:CE;

# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;

# Description of the connection
comment "My GPS";
}

Where you will change the device line to your GPS's address.

3) Link the created RFCOMM device into Wine:
ln /dev/rfcomm0 ~/.wine/dos_devices/com1 -s

4) Restart the bluetooth stack
sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

5) Configure the GPS software to use COM1

I've done this with the Delorme applications with great success.

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Unfortunately, there is no way I have found to make Windows apps play
nice with GPSD. While GPSD can output the GPS data to a socket, you
cannot tell Wine to make that socket look like a serial port to Windows
apps."

Okay, so firstly in my case I made the symlink typing :

ln -s /dev/rfcomm0 /home/joggler/.wine/dosdevices

but in this forum it was written

ln /dev/rfcomm0 /..../...../.wine/dos_devices/... -s

Question ! Why is "-s" at the end and not at the beginning and should I put "_" between "dos" and "devices" ?

And second question it is necessary to edit /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf if every time I connect my bluetooth GPS I manually connect it from blueman ?

Thank you