Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator

dirgotronix · 10-25-2004

So I picked this up today at Best Buy. It's a rebranded Pharos GPS-360 with a USB to Serial 'adapter' (it's a cable that goes between the puck and the computer and it emulates a serial port.)

Works on windows (duh) and I found supposed drivers for this for mac on the pharosgps.com site, but I have nothing in /dev like I'm supposed to.

From what I can tell by googling, this thing should show up as /dev/tty.iGPS or the like.

Any clues? System profiler shows it as:

Code:

USB-Serial Controller:

  Vendor Name:	Prolific Technology Inc.
  Product ID:	43680 ($aaa0)
  Speed:	Up to 12 Mb/sec
  Serial Number:	12345678
  Bus Power (mA):	500

This is wrong, but I believe that's due to my own stupidity and installing the wrong driver while searching the net for usb gps mac drivers. It might also be right, but I can't tell, and I'm unsure of how to uninstall something that used installer.app.

So, anyone have a success story with this GPS?

dirgotronix · 10-25-2004

Got it!

Alright. First off, download the proper driver:

http://www.viewcon.net/driver/rs11/imac.sit

Second, install it.

Third, don't reboot. You need to edit the Info.plist for this driver.

Code:

tibox:/System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext/Contents root# ls
Info.plist          MacOS               PkgInfo             Resources           pbdevelopment.plist

open up Info.plist in your favorite editor (yay vi) and add the following to the <dict> section:

Code:

                <key>067B_AAA0</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
                        <string>com.prolific.driver.PL2303</string>
                        <key>IOClass</key>
                        <string>com_prolific_driver_PL2303</string>
                        <key>IOProviderClass</key>
                        <string>IOUSBInterface</string>
                        <key>bConfigurationValue</key>
                        <integer>1</integer>
                        <key>bInterfaceNumber</key>
                        <integer>0</integer>
                        <key>idProduct</key>
                        <integer>43680</integer>
                        <key>idVendor</key>
                        <integer>1659</integer>
                </dict>

Reboot, open up kismac/terrabrowser/whatever and tell it your GPS is at /dev/tty.usbserial0

Tada!

10-25-2004	#1 (permalink)
dirgotronix Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: lakewood. co Posts: 9	Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator So I picked this up today at Best Buy. It's a rebranded Pharos GPS-360 with a USB to Serial 'adapter' (it's a cable that goes between the puck and the computer and it emulates a serial port.) Works on windows (duh) and I found supposed drivers for this for mac on the pharosgps.com site, but I have nothing in /dev like I'm supposed to. From what I can tell by googling, this thing should show up as /dev/tty.iGPS or the like. Any clues? System profiler shows it as: Code: USB-Serial Controller: Vendor Name: Prolific Technology Inc. Product ID: 43680 ($aaa0) Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Serial Number: 12345678 Bus Power (mA): 500 This is wrong, but I believe that's due to my own stupidity and installing the wrong driver while searching the net for usb gps mac drivers. It might also be right, but I can't tell, and I'm unsure of how to uninstall something that used installer.app. So, anyone have a success story with this GPS?

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