For what it's worth. This is what I am doing with my _working_ gpsdrive setup on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 sudo rfcomm bind /dev/rfcomm0 00:02:C7:2B:7A:1F This binds the port to the bluetooth GPS; note the hardware address for the GPS. Then you can do this to see the GPS sentences: cat /dev/rfcomm0 count=5 And finally, to setup gpsd: gpsd -p /dev/rfcomm0 I hope this is useful. But, this only results in gpsdrive working for me. I cannot get my position with the pskmail client. Dave n9qnz On 2/27/07, Per Crusefalk <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, gpsdrive+gpsd works fine here too. I wonder how they use gpsd, if I telnet to it I only get 'GPSD' and no data but gpsdrive works. Strange. Thanks for copying it to their list, will be interesting to see any response. As a fallback I have built a simple thing in perl that gets the data from the gps and I am now interfacing that with pskmail. It works and its uses 0% cpu (according to top) :-). Ok on the bluetooth adapter, I have a d-link adapter here somewhere and that worked right away (plug n play) with mandriva. You could try the live distro and see if that works any different than puppy. 73 de Per, sm0rwo tis 2007-02-27 klockan 08:35 -0500 skrev kd4e: > gpsdrive with gpsd opens up OK under Puppy Linux 2.13 > and 2.14 but since I am having difficult getting my > USB-Bluetooth adapter working I have been unable to > test it with my Bluetooth GPS! :-( > > I have copied the gpsd and gpsdrive lists in hopes > someone there can assist you. > > > I have almost worked through the night to get gpsd to work on mandriva > > without success. I hope its just me and perhaps I have made a mistake > > somewhere but I can not get gpsd to do anything. When I launch it from > > within gpsdrive it works fine but if I launch it in any other way > > (including hotplug) it just does not work. > > > > I did notice that novell/suse may drop gpsd from the distro completely: > > http://blog.cynapses.org/2006/06/05/gpd-gdal-and-gpsdrive/ > > > > Slackware has problems: > > http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.hardware.gps.gpsd.user/2005-12/msg00003.html > > > > Gentoo has a bug very similar to what I experience: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132288 > > > > But, I hope these are just some simple bugs. Also, none of the mentioned > > fixes worked for mandriva. So, has anyone (apart from Rein > > naturally ;-)) gotten gpsd to work ? On some other distro than > > ubuntu/debian ? I am just about to give up on gpsd and start writing > > something from scratch. But, I hope I wont have to. > > > > 73 de Per, sm0rwo > >