shr- GPS howto?

Hemantha Holla M hemantha.holla at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 20:23:46 CET 2009


On 14/01/2009, Fernando Martins <fernando at cmartins.nl> wrote:

> so something with the device is not working. Also, TangoGPS tells me "no
> GPS found".


Probably unrelated, but on Om2008.*, I saw this TangoGPS complaint quite
often ; this was because somehow 'lo' interface was down and was solved by
'/etc/init.d/networking restart'

Hemantha

Any further suggestions from here?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fernando
>
>
> Michael Sheldon wrote:
> > You can test fso-gpsd by running "telnet localhost 2947" then typing "r"
> > and pressing return. You should the receive GPS data.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Mike.
> >
> > Fernando Martins wrote:
> >
> >> Actually I just thought I had to start manually fso-gpsd (that's what's
> >> on the shr wiki page) but as a matter of fact I checked now that it is
> >> being actually started at boot time. I'm now trying to figure out how to
> >> check whether gps is on/off and how to control it.
> >>
> >> Thomas des Courières wrote:
> >>
> >>> did you try  http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td2104833 ?
> >>>
> >>> 2009/1/13 Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi
> >>> <mailto:timo.lindfors at iki.fi>>
> >>>
> >>>     Fernando Martins <fernando at cmartins.nl
> >>>     <mailto:fernando at cmartins.nl>> writes:
> >>>     > receiving no coords. What can I do to test GSP services?
> >>>
> >>>     1) is the GPS chip powered on?
> >>>     2) is there a process that has the serial port for GPS open?
> >>>     3) is that reading any data?
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