Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] magellan/linux problem

[Robert L. <rob...@us...>]

javier Garcia Prieto wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Its time for another soap opera gps drama
> 
> I wrote -D9 as you told me your a genious!, the only problem is that im an 
> idiot and dont khow what this means

If it makes you feel better, I don't know precisely what it means,
either. But I now know that it's not a GPSBabel problem. :-)

What I do see is that we're successfully sending commands at 4800bps to
the unit and getting mush back from it. (You're spelling it "Baudrate"
below which we don't understand and thus ignore, but our default is
4800.) You don't have NMEA on.

You have some kind of a serial problem. Maybe you have a bad cable
- I've had two bad Magellan serial cables, but I'm guessing I plug
and unplug them more than the average user. Maybe your receiver isn't
set for 4800bps. Maybe your serial port is toast. Maybe some other
application is commandeering the serial port.

A successful communication with a Magellan on Linux will look something 
like this sample [ coords obscrured ] :

[robertl@rjloud gpsbabel]$ gpsbabel -D9 -i magellan -f /dev/ttyS0
GPSBabel Version: 1.2.8-beta12012005-clyde
WRITE: $PMGNCMD,HANDON*70
WRITE: $PMGNCMD,VERSION*28
READ: $PMGNCSM,28*6F

READ: $PMGNVER,036,VER 4 03,SporTrak*28

ACK WRITE: $PMGNCSM,28*6F
WRITE: $PMGNCMD,NMEAOFF*3A
READ: $PMGNCSM,3A*17

WRITE: $PMGNCMD,WAYPOINT*71
READ: $PMGNCSM,71*63

READ: $PMGNWPL,3358.000,N,08353.000,W,0000000,M,-,-,a*45

ACK WRITE: $PMGNCSM,45*64
READ: $PMGNWPL,3350.000,N,08419.000,W,0000000,M,100Behin,100% Behind the Cure,a*7D

ACK WRITE: $PMGNCSM,7D*16
READ: $PMGNWPL,3405.000,N,08416.000,W,0000000,M,150Combo,1.50 Combo,a*4F

ACK WRITE: $PMGNCSM,4F*17
READ: $PMGNWPL,3356.000,N,08426.000,W,0000000,M,1stAnniv,1st Anniversary Cache -- SOAP,a*08
 

[ ... ] 


RJL


> 
> WRITE: $PMGNCMD,HANDON*70
> WRITE: $PMGNCMD,VERSION*28
> READ: $PMGNCMD,HANDON*70
> 
> ACK WRITE: $PMGNCSM,70*62
> COMM ERROR: Expected 28, got 00READ: $PMGNCMD,VERSION*28
> 
> ACK WRITE: $PMGNCSM,28*6F
> COMM ERROR: Expected 28, got 00RXERR 00/13: 
> '$XmEOCS]m72*>2O.tMGOCME.VuSSmO??????{????[[?35?VmgnkmVlV?=?????w?'
> 
> the only part that I understand is
> MAGPROTO: bad communication.  Check bit rate.
> 
> help please.
> 
> >From: Robert Lipe <rob...@us...>
> >To: javier Garcia Prieto <fjg...@ho...>
> >CC: gps...@li...
> >Subject: Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] magellan/linux problem
> >Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:42:37 -0600
> >
> >javier Garcia Prieto wrote:
> >
> >> caronte@arkham:~$ gpsbabel -i
> >> xcsv,style=/home/caronte/datos_grass/gps/grass_longlat.style -f
> >> /home/caronte/datos_grass/gps/arala/arala_utm_wgs84.txt -o
> >> magellan,baudrate=4800 -F /dev/ttyS1
> >> MAGPROTO: bad communication.  Check bit rate.
> >> caronte@arkham:~$
> >
> >Toss a '-D9' in there as your first argument so you can see what's
> >coming and going over the wire.
> >
> >
> >Is NMEA off?
> >
> >RJL
> >
> >
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