[ gpsdrive ] beginner questions

[Andrew Walbran]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Howard Feldstein <howardf42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just getting started with GPS on my eeePC running eeebuntu.  I have gpsd
> and gpsdrive loaded and I have a DeLorme LT40 receiver plugged in and
> running (according to dmesg).  When I run gpsdrive, no GPS is detected.  Do
> you have any suggestion as to how I can check this out and get this running?
When you say it is 'running', have you started gpsd? For me with a
bluetooth GPS I have to do
$ gpsd /dev/rfcomm0
If you have a serial or USB GPS the device will be slightly different,
but hopefully dmesg will tell you what it is called.
If gpsd is running but gpsdrive does not detect it, then see if one of
the basic clients works with it, such as xgps.

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