No GPS found in Tango w/ 2008.8

shawn sullivan shelbydz at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 14:23:01 CEST 2008


Søren Kristiansen wrote:
> 
> 
> shawn sullivan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I can't get TangoGPS to find my GPS when using 2008.8. Instead of all 
>> the useful information at the bottom, it shows 'No GPS found'.
>>
>> Locations works so I know my GPS unit is okay. And I made sure I turned 
>> the GPS 'On' in the settings menu.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> . . .shawn

>>
>>
> 
> First you have to install gpsd (it will tell you if it's already installed):
> # opkg install gpsd
> Then:
> # echo "GPS_DEV=\"/dev/ttySAC1\"" > /etc/default/gpsd
> and then restart gpsd:
> # /etc/init.d/gpsd restart
> The restart command has failed for me a couple of times (cant remember on
> which image) so just "stop" and "start" it if it fails.
> 
> I hope this helped :-)
> 

Yup that did it. Thanks. I actually found these instructions on the wiki 
a few days ago. I vaguely remember doing this when I first installed 
Tango, so I'm not sure why it stopped working.

thx!



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