[ gpsdrive ] GPSDRIVE can't communicate with my globalsat BU-353

[Wayne Topa]

� wrote:
> My config:
> Dell inspiron mini 9, Ubuntu 8.04.
> USB GPS Globalsat BU-353
> Gpsdrive 2.10 pre 4-1 and GPSD 2.36-2 installed from universe repository
> using synaptic.
> 
> GPSdrive says "No GPS used"
> When I telnet localhost 2947 I get:
> $ sudo telnet localhost 2947
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> GPSDRIVE is launched using: gpsdrive -S -q -M pda -g 1024x600
> GPSD is installed but not running:
> gilibert at gilibert:~$ ps -edf | grep gpsd
> gilibert  6652     1  9 00:01 ?        00:02:56 gpsdrive -S -q -M pda -g
> 1024x600
> I thought GPSD was launched by gpsdrive ?
> Thanks in advance for any clue for newby.

I have gpsd running and gpsdrive can't find it.  I tried roadmap and it 
does find the gps on dev/ttyUSB7 and shows I have 8 Sats.

I can no longer find a way to configure the GPS in gpsdrive do guess 
that it does not auto detect or just wasn't programmed to expect that 
many USB ports.  I found an option in an old .gpsdriverc
"serialdevice = /dev/ttyUSB0".  I added that to the current rc file, 
with ttyUSB7 of course, but that didn't help.

BTW the reason for the hight usb port is that I am testing this on a 
desktop.

Wayne