[ gpsdrive ] beginner user

[Fred Felter]

Thanks for the reply Ross. A couple of questions:
   I don´t see a ¨set up¨ on the gpsd web site http://http://gpsd.berlios.de/gpsd.html; only FAQs and coding options. What I need are actual lines to enter into Terminal, just to get me started.
   Here is the output from my attached eTrex with what you have given me to enter. It means nothing to me, nor did your code, but does it mean anything to you? I have no idea if gpsd is running or not.

fred at fred-laptop:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for fred: 
root at fred-laptop:/home/fred# gpsd -n /dev/ttyUSB0 &
[1] 7334
root at fred-laptop:/home/fred# gpsd -n /dev/gps &
[2] 7343
[1]   Done                    gpsd -n /dev/ttyUSB0
root at fred-laptop:/home/fred# 




----- Original Message ----
From: Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com>
To: gpsdrive at lists.gpsdrivers.org
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 7:18:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ gpsdrive ] beginner user

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
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