[ltp] Anyone running Kismet, Gpsdrive?

[Bert Haskins]

Meidinger Chris wrote:

>All the USB GPS devices that I've tried are basically the same. How far are you getting trying to get your setup to work?
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>What device are you telling gpsdrive to look at? Is that the same device your dmesg shows you? Your GPS is probably emulating a serial device, and should show up as /dev/tts/USB0 or /dev/ttsUSB0 or /dev/tts/USB/0 depending on your udev config (assuming you are using udev...)
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>Anyway, how far are you getting? What are you doing that's not working??
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>Cheers,
>
>Chris
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No /dev/tts/ even though lsusb shows it as Bus 002 Device 002: ID 
1163:0200 DeLorme Publishing, Inc.
Interesting.. no /dev/tts
This is running under FC3.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org on behalf of Bert Haskins
>Sent: Wed 01-Mar-06 15:54
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: Re: [ltp] Anyone running Kismet, Gpsdrive?
> 
>Thanks for the reply.
>Have you had any experience with the DeLorme USB device?
>This came in a quite complete package ( windoze ) and I would
>like to have it run in Fedora.
>
>I also have a Garmin GPS 38 but it is sort of built in in my boat.
>Thanks,
>   Bert
>
>Meidinger Chris wrote:
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>>Hi Bert,
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>>my Inbox is a huge mess at the moment, but I've had tons of different setups with Kismet/GPSDrive and diverse GPS-Units, both USB and Serial.
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>>If you can tell me what's going on exactly (I can't filter for replies to your message at the moment) I can probably help you.
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>>Cheers,
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org on behalf of Bert Haskins
>>Sent: Mon 27-Feb-06 19:30
>>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>>Subject: [ltp] Anyone running Kismet, Gpsdrive?
>>
>>Anyone running Kismet, Gpsdrive?
>>My GPS unit is the DeLORME usb and the Wlan
>>( internal, my install)  is a Atheros AR5211 / 12 which is a
>>very nice setup by the way.
>>Gpsdrive does not seem to see the USB GPS.
>>Is there anyone out there that is familar with this combo?
>>Thanks,
>>  Bert
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