[Swlug] G-Mouse

[Alice Mitchell]

On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 18:10 +0000, Rhys Sage via Swlug wrote:
> Without the GMouse plugged in I get...
> rhys at Apollo:~$ lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp. 
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13d3:5a06 IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> 
> With the GMouse plugged in I get...
> rhys at Apollo:~$ lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp. 
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13d3:5a06 IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1546:01a7 U-Blox AG [u-blox 7]
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> rhys at Apollo:~$ 
> Therefore it has to be the U-Blox device.

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)

so yes okay, thats the GPS device, and its created a serial port
device.
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.

ls -l /dev/ttyACM0

and see what owner and group it belongs to, add yourself to that group,
or for temporary testing sudo the command

putty is a curious choice for not windows, but whatever, 

putty -serial /dev/ttyACM0

use the -sercfg option if you need to set the serial port speed, parity
etc.,
more details on a website like this...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/592386/ubuntu-putty-and-serial-port

 
> 
> 
> The device itself just says "G-Mouse" and "IPX6" plus "RoHS Voltage
> DC 3v-5v"
> 
> 
> Putty was installed and that was weird... 18 packages removed, two
> added, 19 not upgraded.
> 
> 
> Anyway I did a  ls /dev/tty* before the GMouse was plugged in. After
> it showed up a new device... /dev/ttyACM0 
> 
> 
> Running Putty I got "unable to connect to seriel port" and "unable to
> open connection to /dev/ttyACM0"
> 
> 
> Not defeated nor deflated but finding interesting issues to which I
> don't yet know the answers.
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> 
> Rhys Sage

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