In the screen above, you can see that a USB to Serial converter was connected and given the name ttyUSB0 (this was my AIS receiver) but that this was disconnected. The Dmesg command extracts information from various log files and returns the current and historical information about USB devices that have been connected to the PC. Which returned the following information about all of the serial ports – “tty” is a legacy term in LINUX from the days of Teletypewriters which then evolved in to computer terminals that used serial ports to connect to the mainframe computer. To investigate further, I opened a Terminal Window and typed… It has been a while since I played with the LINUX version of OpenCPN and with a normal Ubuntu V12.04 32 bit setup, I was surprised when I could not get the NMEA data from my AIS receiver or transponder to be received. ![]() ![]() In response to a comment on my recent “Managing the Device Manager”, where Michael reported problems getting his AIS100USB working on LINUX, I decided to download the latest OpenCPN and make sure that the new NMEA Connections code that they have recently added to V3.20 did in fact still work like the previous versions.
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