Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator

Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator

Postby dirgotronix » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:21 pm

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:

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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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Postby dirgotronix » Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:35 pm

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.
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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:
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                <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!
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