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

[Ross Scanlon]

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:25:28 -0400
Wayne Topa <linuxone at intergate.com> wrote:


> > The default parameters for gpsd for device should be /dev/gps and hotplug
> > should automatically handle this for you.
> 
> Well maybe it *should have*, but it didn't/doesn't.  I don't have 
> /dev/gps.  So I changed /etc/default/gpsd to what the  8.04_manual has 
> for that file. Unplugged the gps, stopped gpsd, restarted gpsd, plugged 
> gps in.  Ran gpspipe -r which displays one line "GPSD, R=1", and still 
> no /dev/gps and gpsdrive can't see the gps.

Wayne,

My mistake I should have said udev should be handling it.

The udev rule should be something like:

SYSFS{idVendor}=="067b", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2303", SYMLINK="gps", RUN+="/lib/udev/gpsd.hotplug.wrapper"

You would have to set the idVendor and idProduct correctly this will create a symlink /dev/gps to your /dev/ttyUSBxxx


> The 8.04 manual instructions dit not work for setting up the databases 
> either.  Guess Ubuntu is a bit different the Debian Squeeze.

What did not work for the databases.

Cheers
Ross