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Distribution: Debian 4.0, Ubuntu 7.04, 6.10, Server 6.06, Puppy
Posts: 7
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Ubuntu and GPS-360 (from MS Streets & Trips)
I'm having problems getting the Pharos GPS-360 (ie. the GPS puck that comes with Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006) working with my Ubuntu setup. It's on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop. I was hoping to get some GPS going on so I could map out some parks that so far aren't on Openstreetmap.org.
I plugged in the usb cable that comes with it, dmesg shows me
Quote:
[ 5611.808000] pl2303 4-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[ 5611.808000] usb 4-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
and lsusb shows
Quote:
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 067b:aaa0 Prolific Technology, Inc.
So far, everything seems fine.
I've installed gpsd and gpsdrive, and as far as I know have the necessary config files all set up properly. When I run gpsdrive, though, it stays in simulation mode (granted, I'm not sure exactly which GPS settings to use - I've tried everything) after saying that no GPS was found.
I've seen other people have success with some Windows programs running via Wine, but I haven't had such luck. I tried SeaClear, but it doesn't pick up anything either. I've even made the symbolic link within wine to make it seem as if my ttyUSB0 is actually a com port.
Does anybody have any tips? I'm pretty confused...
Last edited by Short.Cipher; 10-19-2007 at 08:57 PM.
and afterwards as normal user gpsdrive. This works fine for me. I added these lines in my IvmanConfigActions.xml to make it run at the moment the GPS-unit is plugged in.
Distribution: Debian 4.0, Ubuntu 7.04, 6.10, Server 6.06, Puppy
Posts: 7
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I don't get anything, strangely enough... I even tried putting the -N switch on, thinking that it would give helpful debug messages, but I don't get anything back in the terminal. It just sits there.
It doesn't even seem as if the daemon gets running in the first place. As I mentioned above, when I try starting/restarting it through "/etc/init.d/gpsd restart" it says that it fails (my post above).
I've got the day free today, so I'm going to try putting some extra partitions on my laptop's drive... maybe see if it works better through a different distro.
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