Re: [Gumstix-users] GPS BaSiCs

[Rich G. <ric...@gm...>]

Hi Chris,

Is this page relevant?
http://www.pegasushabproject.org.uk/cfgps.html

If you can't get NMEA sentences coming out of a cat /dev/something...
then gpsd isn't likely to work.

Take a look at the file INSTALL in the gpsd install.  I'm looking at
an old version, but it starts out like this:
----
"1. Start by making sure you can get data from your GPS, otherwise the later
steps will be very frustrating.  In this command

      stty -F /dev/ttyXXX ispeed 4800; cat </dev/ttyUSB0

replace ttyXXX with the filename of the port.  This will probably be
either /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyS0.  When you run this command, you
should see text lines beginning with $ come to stdout (possibly after
a short initial burst of binary garbage).  If you don't see this, you
may have OS-level problems with your serial support, but more likely
have the wrong device.  Look again."
----

Regards,
Rich

On 12/11/06, Chris <c.e...@bt...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, in an earlier thread I asked how to get access to data from my gpstix. I
> tried cat /dev/tt... etc which returned no output. I then downloaded and
> tried making GPSD but got an error saying "undefined reference to fmod"?
> Everything I do on Linux is a fight, do i need to mount the gpstix or
> something like that? it is straight out of the box and attached to connex
> 400xm. I assume it does not need a seperate power supply?
>
> thanks  :o)
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