[debian & gps] How to check gps

[Dima Kogan]

To check the raw data coming out of the device, do 

cat /dev/ttySAC1 | grep GGA

This should give you a line of data every second or so. Once a fix has
been established, these lines contain latitude,longitude values in
plain ASCII. The gpsd daemon (whether true gpsd or fso-gpsd) should
make this data available on port 2947. Check this with

nc 127.0.0.1 2947 | grep GGA

If the daemon works, you should get the same data here, as above. Good
luck.



On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:03:53 +0200
Fox Mulder <Quakeman1 at gmx.net> wrote:

> For me fso-gpsd didn't work right so i changed back to gpsd and
> everything works like a charm with gps. :)
> Maybe you try installing gpsd and deinstall fso-gpsd.
> 
> Ciao,
>      Rainer
> 
> Christian Weßel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > tangogps and fso-gpsd were installed from
> > <http://ftp2.de.debian.org>, but I get no fix.
> > 
> > In the Trip tab tango shows allways an alternating GPS Time (Tue
> > 1999-11-30 00:00:00 or Fri 1999-11-31 01:00:00) and Satelites:
> > 11/0. The rest is zero.
> > 
> > The zhone internal gps appl. shows at the start view at all items
> > N/A, and at the satelite view are about 10 satelites shown.
> > 
> > The FR ran the whole evening next to a window in a wooden house,
> > but it got no fix. I couldn't remove the SD card of using Debian
> > installed on it :-}. Is my FR one of these ones with the SD card
> > problem? Or is it also fixed by Debian distro?
> > 
> > How can I check my GPS? How can I bring it up running?
> > 
> > Sorry for all these question, but I couldn't find any solution in
> > the wikis.
> > 
> > 
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