[ gpsdrive ] Problem connecting nmea application on 2.10pre5

[Joerg Ostertag (Tettnang)]

On Donnerstag 28 August 2008, Desai, Shashidhar wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to integrate gpsdrive onto Moblin. I was successful in doing
> that on gpsdrive 2.9 version before 2.10 was released.
>
> But now 2.9 has problem of compiling as it says it requires gcc 3 and above
> and I have gcc 4.43, but still it dosen't compile.

This is a bug in the configure script.


> If I do a apt-get I get the latest version 2.10pre5 which dosen't have any
> option for connecting the nmea application in the gps receiver setting in
> gpsdrive.
>
> I need to know how to connect the nmea application using gpsdrive.

You need to use gpsd to work as an interface couppler between your gps and 
gpsdrive-2.10. To see if gpsd is running and connecting to your gps try xgps.

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