[ gpsdrive ] Using GPSDrive to communicate with Garmin 18 USB

[Philippe Drabczuk]

Hi,

Thank you for your quick answer !
Thanks to your advice, I tried to use xgps, and I realized that the gps 
receiver wasn't fixing, because it didn't see enough satellites.
As it was on the window-edge, the building was hiding a large part of 
the sky. I've put the gps receiver in a place from where it was able to 
see a larger part of the sky, and then it worked well.

Thank you for your help!
Good Bye,

Philippe

Joerg Ostertag a écrit :
> 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 ;-)
>
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>
> Joerg
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