On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:47:04 +0800, Tony Frame wrote:
[....]
>> Anybody have a guess -- or a way to find out -- why the same
software
>> connects to the same GPSs on two machines, but not on four others??
[....]
> If your GPSs are connected to the serial port it may be worth
checking
> access rights to the serial ports are OK on the F11 machines.
> It seems F11 has introduced the dialup group ... in F10 and
earlier
> adding users who needed access to the serial port to the uucp group
> worked for my data logger comms program. On a machine recently upgraded
> to F11 I needed to add the user to the dialup group.
uhh ... dialout group not dialup
Ok, thanks. Fortunately I hit this post first, and didn't have to
guess.
I went through five machines, adding my userid to the dialout
group for each. I think it did half the job: with my old etrex vista
connected to the serial port, TOPOUS2008 (on one machine, so far) finds
the GPS -- but then fails to transfer anything, in either direction.
That's an improvement over not finding it, to be sure; but I need
one more ...
I did run through the list of groups, looking for other likely
candidates, but failed to spot any. (My userid was already in uucp.)
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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.