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acgypsy

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Posted: April 20 2005,23:53

Quote (Caspar_s @ April 20 2005,17:25)

Sounds something like this... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymot....3494713
High Tech 2000 Winnebago Adventurer 37' w/ Network Gear

Oh, and that wireless caravan sounds cool. Hmmm, I already have the mini-itx... Oh wait, I don't have a car

I'm doing mine on the cheap, but it's not as extensive as that rig. I still have a bedroom and bathroom. Wehn it was all said and done, I bought my truck for $6000 and the trailer for $9000 including all fees, taxes, loan fees, etc. That (unfortunately) includes my commuter vehicle (for another 54 days). Great way to become a first-time homeowner. ;)

The rig on ebay is probably worth at least $30k for a gutted motorhome. I didn't see anything about water tanks, but anything extra (bed, bath, kitchen) can always be installed.

You could have a new home and vehicle! ;)

acgypsy

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Posted: April 21 2005,00:06

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Wow!! Rolling Internet Cafe there!

SCHWEET!

Brian
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This rig has the terminals removed, you could install them in a tent outside. Using DSL on small recycled PCs (yeah, monitors are an issue, but with those 2 generators...) I'm considering the same kind of thing, but I'd probably use solar panels and batteries instead of generators.

In other news, I got my usb gps today, and although I haven't dug into it, DSL is "missing kernel or user mode driver pl2303". Will investigate further in the next couple days.

Jeff
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Posted: April 21 2005,07:30

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I got my usb gps today, and although I haven't dug into it, DSL is "missing kernel or user mode driver pl2303". Will investigate further in the next couple days.

Maybe I can point you towards the right direction, although I don't have a complete answer.

A Prolific PL2303 is a USB-to-Serial bridge. (It means that your GPS device actually talks asynchronous serial, not USB, and the pl2303 does the translation on-the-fly.)

The Prolific Tech Support site (http://tech.prolific.com.tw) does have a linux driver, although it is noted as being for RedHat. (I can't give you a direct URL, the material on the site is obscured behind .asp interfaces: you have to 'drill down' from the landing page.)

On the Linux-USB site at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=547 there is a note that says "As of kernel version 2.4.18, this device seems to be supported."

Hope that helps - I have a GPSr that needs a similar driver - it works OK with that other commercial OS, but I've never tried to get it running under any flavour of linux.

DeeJay

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Posted: April 24 2005,19:10

Quote (DeeJay @ April 21 2005,03:30)

Quote (acgypsy @ April 20 2005,20:06)

I got my usb gps today, and although I haven't dug into it, DSL is "missing kernel or user mode driver pl2303". Will investigate further in the next couple days.

I was able to check out the site at work once, but didn't grab the file(s). Now the site seems to have disappeared

Onward!

Jeff

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Posted: May 02 2005,14:32

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Quote (acgypsy @ April 20 2005,20:06)

I got my usb gps today, and although I haven't dug into it, DSL is "missing kernel or user mode driver pl2303". Will investigate further in the next couple days.

It turns out that DSL1.0rc1 has pl2303.o loaded and ready. I just had to install a .deb for gpsd (2.6, packed for ubuntu, it seems), which is working well.

Getting gpsdrive (and all it dependencies) would be great - I had planned on using a 3Com Audrey running VNCViewer to control the server, but may have to use my laptop for the heavy lifting of GPSDrive, streaming mp3's, etc.

Jeff
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