[ gpsdrive ] Using GPSDrive to communicate with Garmin 18 USB

[Joerg Ostertag]

Am Freitag, 9. November 2007 10:53:05 schrieb Philippe Drabczuk:
> Hi,
>
> I hope I'm using the appropriate way to ask for help.

At least it's a good starting point.

> I've been encountering problems while using GpsDrive 

Can you give us a hint which Version of GpsDrive you're using? 
	2.10pre3 
	2.10pre4
debian/suse/gentoo/... ?

> to communicate with 
> my Garmin 18 USB : I'm just trying to get Latitude and Longitude, but
> when I launch GpsDrive, I get the following message :
>
> "Plus de données provenant du récepteur GPS depuis trop longtemps!"
> (in english : "No more data from GPS receiver for too long")

Have you tried to use xgps to see if gpsd sends data the complete time while 
you are running gpsdrive?


> I know that my receiver do not send NMEA data, but according to the
> Hardware section of gpsd site (http://gpsd.berlios.de/hardware.html),
> gpsd should be able to communicate with the garmin 18 USB receiver. When
> I launch gpsd, it "normally" runs (that is it recognizes /dev/ttyUSB0 as
> a valid device, I can read the name and the model of my GPS receiver
> using gpspipe, or a program I've made with the C++ library given with

As what my understanding was, gpsd should normally connect and communicate  to 
your GPS in garmin mode and then send out NMEA strings to gpsdrive. So this 
should really work, even if it (probably) is not too often used, since most 
people switch there devices to NMEA mode.

> I entirely read documentation and FAQ, I tried to reinstall last version
> of the module garmin_gps, last version of gpsd, I tried to update my
> kernel,... Now, I don't know what to do anymore, so I'm asking for help.

That's great and it's probably more than I've ever done ;-)

-

Joerg