<html><head></head><body><div>On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 18:10 +0000, Rhys Sage via Swlug wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="ydp787356c9yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Without the GMouse plugged in I get...<br><div><div>rhys@Apollo:~$ lsusb</div><div>Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub</div><div>Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp. </div><div>Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader</div><div>Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13d3:5a06 IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam</div><div>Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">With the GMouse plugged in I get...</div><div>rhys@Apollo:~$ lsusb</div><div>Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub</div><div>Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp. </div><div>Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader</div><div>Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13d3:5a06 IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam</div><div>Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1546:01a7 U-Blox AG [u-blox 7]</div><div>Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub</div><div>rhys@Apollo:~$ </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Therefore it has to be the U-Blox device.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>my mistake for assuming a device called a g-mouse was the logitech g-mouse, not some curiously named gps module (somebody fire that marketing department)</div><div><br></div><div>so yes okay, thats the GPS device, and its created a serial port device.</div><div>but do you have permission to access that device ? by default it probably isnt accessible to a user, only to root and maybe group tty or some other similarly named group.</div><div><br></div><div>ls -l /dev/ttyACM0</div><div><br></div><div>and see what owner and group it belongs to, add yourself to that group, or for temporary testing sudo the command</div><div><br></div><div>putty is a curious choice for not windows, but whatever, </div><div><br></div><div>putty -serial /dev/ttyACM0</div><div><br></div><div>use the -sercfg option if you need to set the serial port speed, parity etc.,</div><div>more details on a website like this...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/592386/ubuntu-putty-and-serial-port">https://askubuntu.com/questions/592386/ubuntu-putty-and-serial-port</a></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="ydp787356c9yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The device itself just says "G-Mouse" and "IPX6" plus "RoHS Voltage DC 3v-5v"</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Putty was installed and that was weird... 18 packages removed, two added, 19 not upgraded.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Anyway I did a ls /dev/tty* before the GMouse was plugged in. After it showed up a new device... <span>/dev/ttyACM0 </span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Running Putty I got "unable to connect to seriel port" and "unable to open connection to <span>/dev/ttyACM0"</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Not defeated nor deflated but finding interesting issues to which I don't yet know the answers.<br><div><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp787356c9signature">Rhys Sage<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>