[ gpsdrive ] beginner user

[Ross Scanlon]

Hi Fred,

Follow the steps for setting up gpsd from the howto as gpsd is not running at startup and without the mods will not run.

You could also try:


gpsd -n /dev/ttyUSB0 &

or

gpsd -n /dev/gps &

This is for a USB connected gps.

gpspipe will not do anything unless gpsd is running.

Cheers
Ross




On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:51:38 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Felter <felterf at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Ross.
> At first, as I scanned the manual installation steps, I was intimidated to think that I needed to complete each one without an error  but then I saw the mention of the package installation, which I have done. I´ve also installed (I think) gpsd. So, for starters I thought maybe I needed to open gpsd, but here is what I got:
> 
> fred at fred-laptop:~$ gpsd
> gpsd: can't run with neither control socket nor devices
> 
> And for gpspipe -r
> 
> fred at fred-laptop:~$ gpspipe -r
> gpspipe: could not connect to gpsd 127.0.0.1:2947, Connection refused(111)
> 
> Any idea of what I´m missing? And I do appreciate your help since I am completely without Linux expertise and have no computer programming knowledge either. If I can get GPSDrive running it will be the first add on app to work for me, since I can´t even make Skype function properly.
> 
> Fred