Hi, This is my first post to the community I learned so much from. Just wanted to share -- I managed to succesfully install today the GPScon windows application on a micro computer Raspberry Pi 3 model B. CPU utilisation is 2% - a perfect overall result. I used an FTDI RS232 USB dongle to connect Z3805A/58503B to the Pi. First I installed on the Pi a Russian commercial I686 emulation software called ExaGear Desktop by Eltechs.com ($30). It provides a Debian-8 Intel environment on the Arm CPU. Next move was to (sudo apt-get) install wine Windows XP emulator and symlink therein com1 as /dev/ttyUSB0 - to enable the usb dongle to be seen by Wine as com1. Then I installed my copy of GPScon from 2013, which turned out to work pretty well. Hope this post was usefull. In case of interest I would exact steps to make this working. Best regards Olgierd

Neat! I just happen to be playing with a Pi this week as a class assignment (retirement is wonderful - finally going back to college). I downloaded Lady Heather, compiled it, and got it to come up and run. Nothing that I can plug in this week though, but it looks good. I also installed QEMU in user mode which is similar to ExaGear, but slower and free (long run I will probably get an ASUS Tinker as my lab computer, and it is a different ExaGear). However, I could not find the steps to download wine. I understand that some sort of patch is required, but all that I could find was complete linux images that were already patched. What were your steps to download and install wine? Michael > Hi, > This is my first post to the community I learned so much from. Just wanted > to share -- I managed to succesfully install today the GPScon windows > application on a micro computer Raspberry Pi 3 model B. CPU utilisation is 2% - a perfect overall result. > I used an FTDI RS232 USB dongle to connect Z3805A/58503B to the Pi. First I > installed on the Pi a Russian commercial I686 emulation software called > ExaGear Desktop by Eltechs.com ($30). It provides a Debian-8 Intel > environment on the Arm CPU. Next move was to (sudo apt-get) install wine > Windows XP emulator and symlink therein com1 as /dev/ttyUSB0 - to enable the > usb dongle to be seen by Wine as com1. > Then I installed my copy of GPScon from 2013, which turned out to work pretty well. > Hope this post was usefull. In case of interest I would exact steps to make this working. > Best regards > Olgierd > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. -- Best regards, Timenut mailto:timenut@metachaos.net

Hi Michel, I installed Wine (Windows compatibility layer) within the ExaGear. After the installation of the ExaGear on a Raspberry Pi one gets a new icon on the desktop that just starts a session of Debian-8. Trying command "$ arch" returns "i686" ....beauty! What I did (within this Debian session) was: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade (- this returned couple of warnings/errors mainly in the area of certificates updating - nothing critical I suppose) And just $ sudo apt-get install wine ...did the trick. Try then: $ wine --version $ wine start For the first time, Wine dowloaded itself some extra .Net emulation as well as Internet Explorer (Gecko) module. One needs also to create a sybolic link in ~/.wine/dosdevices to enable the serial port for Windows (assuming e.g. the FTDI driver recognised it on the Raspbian level): $ ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 Note ExaGear offers three day trial for free. Let me add a quote from an Eltechs email: "The best way to get the trial is to install it directly from Raspberry Pi repository. For that, you have to open the command line and input two simple commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install exagear-desktop After the installation you need to run 'exagear' command and fill in the pop-up form to get trial license key." I believe that having a native GPS monitoring software on a Raspberry Pi instead of PC would become a game changer. My GPScon has been working flawlessly for few days now. Good luck! Olgierd Dnia 20.06.2017 o godz. 14:34 timenut@metachaos.net napisał(a): > Neat! > > I just happen to be playing with a Pi this week as a class assignment > (retirement is wonderful - finally going back to college). > > I downloaded Lady Heather, compiled it, and got it to come up and run. Nothing > that I can plug in this week though, but it looks good. I also installed QEMU > in user mode which is similar to ExaGear, but slower and free (long run I will > probably get an ASUS Tinker as my lab computer, and it is a different ExaGear). > > However, I could not find the steps to download wine. I understand that some > sort of patch is required, but all that I could find was complete linux images > that were already patched. What were your steps to download and install wine? > > Michael > >> Hi, >> This is my first post to the community I learned so much from. Just wanted >> to share -- I managed to succesfully install today the GPScon windows >> application on a micro computer Raspberry Pi 3 model B. CPU utilisation is 2% - a perfect overall result. >> I used an FTDI RS232 USB dongle to connect Z3805A/58503B to the Pi. First I >> installed on the Pi a Russian commercial I686 emulation software called >> ExaGear Desktop by Eltechs.com ($30). It provides a Debian-8 Intel >> environment on the Arm CPU. Next move was to (sudo apt-get) install wine >> Windows XP emulator and symlink therein com1 as /dev/ttyUSB0 - to enable the >> usb dongle to be seen by Wine as com1. >> Then I installed my copy of GPScon from 2013, which turned out to work pretty well. >> Hope this post was usefull. In case of interest I would exact steps to make this working. > >> Best regards >> Olgierd >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > > > -- > Best regards, > Timenut mailto:timenut@metachaos.net > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there.

it looks to me like Olgierdhas a working INTEL linux os running on the Pi3. He installed Wine on the Intel Linux not on the ARM Linux It looks like maybe Michael has an ARM version of linux running native on the Pi3 Wine will not run on that If you need to run Wine, you need to fist have an INTEL lInux running. Remember "WINE= Wine Is Not an Emulaor" and it will not run Intel binaries on Arm. I'm skeptical it would be more then a stunt a triple stack of virtual environments. But if the final Windows app is not really doing anything with the CPU, maybe fast enough.