Fedora7 USB GPS problem

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Nov 20 14:56:56 UTC 2007


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.

Mikkel
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