Re: Fedora7 USB GPS problem

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Paul Olson wrote:
> > Well, it works on WindowsXP (a VMWare image on the same laptop) with the
> > DeLORME Street Atlas 2008 application;  the led on the unit flashes
> > green and it sees 7 satellites. It is curious that the device is 'seen' > > on plug in as an EarthMate LT-20, but gpsd tries to load a garmin device...
> >
>This sounds like a gpsd bug. You can try accessing the GPS directly
>using something like roadnav, instead of loading gpsd, and see if
>that works.


I think you are mis-reading that log message. I think that gpsd is telling you that it is NOT using the garmin code specification to talk to the unit. Garmin hardware apparently can do 'garmin' or 'NMEA'...


Geoff

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