Revolution Reading GPS Data

[Thomas McGrath III]

This is what I was referring to before. I was able to communicate with  
a few of my 'Serial' now USB devices using the same drivers from  
Keyspan. I noticed after install from a Kestrel device that the driver  
that created the Virtual Com Port was the same.

I found them here :  http://www.keyspan.com/downloads/homepage_pn_usa19w.spml

I believe it was the 19W that worked best.

I also use this to communicate to my Meade Telescope, Kestrel 4500,  
and Garmin GPS.

HTH

Tom McG

On Mar 5, 2008, at 6:17 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> There seemed when I was working in this area to be two main sources  
> of the latter: FTDI and ??Prolific?.  Although the devices I was  
> working with were Windows only, I was able to find Mac drivers for  
> both of these things with a bit of googling on the net (because  
> other products are using the same chipsets, and are marketed with  
> Mac software).  Once I got these installed I could simply open a  
> "port" called /dev/cu.usbserial, and found that I was talking to the  
> GPS device as if it was a serial device.  So in fact Rev was dealing  
> with a serial device; and the actual SiRF chipset was a serial  
> device; there were just a few layers of bridging over USB going on  
> between the two.
>
> So I reckon that there's a fair chance that you could establish  
> communication with the device (though mind you I did this a couple  
> of years ago, on a PowerPC - I've not checked whether Intel versions  
> of these drivers are now available).