fudd 0 #1 December 17, 2003 I know there are some serious linux dudes on dz.com. Have any of you successfully connected a protrack or neptune to a linux system? How about software? Any good skydiving software for linux? Someone gave me an old laptop today, and I'm going to run linux on it. There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamT 0 #2 December 17, 2003 About a year ago i tried running the jumptrack software via wine. It didn't work, but i don't know much about setting up wine. Maybe there has been advances in the software and it would work now, wine is one of the more active open source projects. If you get the jumptrack software to work there is a good chance the serial communication to the protrack would work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #3 December 17, 2003 Good luck with that. The ProTrack doesn't use standard RS-232 signalling over the connection from the unit to the cradle and pack to the PC. It's proprietary. Once you capture the port data, you would also have to decode it as well. As for the Neptune, no information on the signalling and protocols used have been released but it seems to be standard RS-232 from the driver used under Windows (IRCOMM).Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
