Re: ttyUSB0 and GPS

["Wayne <linuxtwo@gmail.com>" <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

Dale wrote:
> 2009/12/11 Wayne <linuxtwo@gmail.com>:
> > Dale wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to lock a GPS down to use ttyUSB0 all the time,
> > > whether it get plugged in and out of the USB port? Basically I want it
> > > to reclaim ttyUSB0 after it have been removed from the USB port and
> > > then plugged back in. Â Currently when I unplug the USB GPS and plug it
> > > back in it takes the next ttyUSB* inline ie ttyUSB3 for me currently
> > > as I have a USB 3G dongle occupying ttyUSB1 and ttyUSB2.
> > >
> > > I have looked around in udev ie /etc/udev/ and /etc/udev/rules.d/ to
> > > find the file where I can lock it to ttyUSB0 but had no success.
> > Edit /etc/default/gpsd
> >
> > Wayne
>
> Hi Wayne,
>
> That was not what I was looking for. I have gpsd all configured, I
> want to nail this device down in that if it gets unplugged that it
> always gets ttyUSB0 even when there is other USB devices plugged into
> that machine.

Thats what I thought you wanted to do


/etc/default/gsd

# Default settings for gpsd.
# Please do not edit this file directly - use `dpkg-reconfigure gpsd' to
# change the options.
START_DAEMON="false"
DAEMON_OPTS=""
DEVICES="/dev/ttyUSB0"
USBAUTO="true"


Works here but of course YMMV

Wayne