[ gpsdrive ] Garmin usb18(oem) .. is it alive?

[gpsdosm at trixtar.org]

Hamish wrote:
>> Under linux the gpsd command line testing outlined in
>> the INSTALL file, like
> 
> I've had mixed success with that (no luck on Mac OSX)

Gee, I'd been hearing that with XOS everything always works 
out of the box :-)

For me today's exercise in futily sums up as..

Can't connect to local MySQL
.gpsdrive/way.txt: No such file or directory
Checking connection, 1 packets, abort.
Connection closed by foreign host.
fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
GPS Type:   unknown
Segmentation fault




> better: get gpsd running. Turn on debugging messages at a
> high level and you will see all the fixes coming through.

Don't know how to do that. I would like to see ANYTHING 
coming out of it, signal or no signal, at least to know if I 
need to send it back.

> also try the gpsd utility "xgps" and "cgpxlogger" to see
> if data is coming out, and try the example to telnet to
> port 2947 and turn on raw mode.

How would I do that, the telnet part?

> If you still have problems, perhaps you may get more help
> on the gpsd user mailing list?

Sorry about the delay, I get ten minutes or so every two
days to keep trying this thing. And thanks you for the hints
I will try that group too.

I gave starting gpsdrive a shot in terminal mode also (can't 
use the gui anyway it locks up taller than screen height 
using 1920x1200).

# gpsdrive
  Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
  '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (                       2)

       mysql IS installed but all there is
       under/var/lib/mysql
       is
         .protected (root only, empty)
         .tmp (epty)
         .run-mysql_upgrade

  Creating main window
  /home/user/.gpsdrive/way.txt: No such file or directory
  Read 503 POI-Types from /usr/share/map-icons/icons.xml
  map_koord.txt reloaded
  /home/user/.gpsdrive/way.txt: No such file or directory



Then I did a

# tail -f /var/log/messages and plugged it in to get...

  on /dev/pts/2
  kernel: usb 1-8: new full speed
  USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
  kernel: usb 1-8: new device found,
  idVendor=091e, idProduct=0003
  kernel: usb 1-8: new device
  strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
  kernel: usb 1-8: configuration #1
  chosen from 1 choice
  kernel: garmin_gps 1-8:1.0: Garmin
  GPS usb/tty converter detected
  kernel: usb 1-8: Garmin GPS
  usb/tty converter now attached to ttyUSB0

So it is being recognised and it's ttyUSB0 I guess.


Then tried whatever I could find on the net..


# gpsman
   ..set up for /dev/ttyUSB0 or tty/S0
   ..click gps receiver-check
   Checking connection, 1 packets, abort.



# gpsd_nmea.sh

  Switching the local gpsd to NMEA Mode
  Trying 127.0.0.1...
  Connected to localhost.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  GPSD
  Connection closed by foreign host.


# stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 && cat </dev/ttyUSB0
  speed 9600 baud; line = 0;
  quit = <undef>; erase = <undef>; kill = ^D; eof = <undef>;
  start = <undef>; stop = <undef>; susp = ^C; rprnt =
  <undef>; werase = <undef>;
  lnext = <undef>; flush = ^D;
  -brkint -imaxbel


# xgpsspeed
  XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
  on X server ":0.0"
  after 588 requests (588 known processed) with 0 events
  remaining.


# cgps
  ..nothing, but I notice: GPS Type:   unknown


# gpxlogger
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <gpx version="1.1" creator="navsys logger"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1.1"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPS/1/1
  http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd">
  <metadata>
  <name>NavSys GPS logger dump</name>
  <author>Amaury Jacquot</author>
  <copyright>BSD or GPL v 2.0</copyright>
  </metadata>


# cgpxlogger
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <gpx version="1.1" creator="GPX GPSD client"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1.1"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPS/1/1
  http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd">
  <metadata>
  <name>GPX GPSD client</name>
  <author>Chris Kuethe (chris.kuethe at gmail.com)</author>
  <copyright>2-clause BSD License</copyright>
  </metadata>
  Segmentation fault