Thanks for your response. I finally got it going, so I'll explain how for
anyone else who's trying to get it going.
In the end, I ended up using the stock 2.6.20-16-generic kernel, shipped
with Ubuntu Feisty. I built the Asus Laptop Support version 0.41 module.
You can't cat /dev/ttyS0 without initialising the gps in the first place. I
didn't know this, due to a lack of experience with GPS devices. There are
several ways to initialse the gps. I played around with VisualGPS via wine
in the first place as I had it working in windows and it actually works.
Once I was satisfied that it was correctly running, I tried GPSD. In debug
mode, you can view the NMEA sentences arriving.
gpsd -N -n -D 2 /dev/ttyS0
gpsdrive successfully connected to gpsd without any problem.
Of note, I had no luck playing around with 2.6.22-rc4. The serial port
wouldn't initialise, despite copying the stock config file from Ubuntu's
2.6.20-16-generic kernel. I got sick of chasing my tail, so stuck with the
default kernel.
From: Corentin CHARY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: "Rob ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Acpi4asus-user] R2H and GPS
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 09:38:04 +0200
Le Thursday 07 June 2007 09:26:51 Rob ., vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
> I've compiled and installed a 2.6.22-rc4 kernel using Ubuntu. I've seen
> seen the kernel patches to enable the gps unit. The problem is, once
I've
> enabled it, how can I access it? I was assuming that I could cat
> /dev/ttyS1, however this does not appear to be the case. Any help would
be
> greatly appreciated.
> Regards,
> Rob.
I realy don't know ... Sam Lin may be able to help you (cced)
--
CHARY 'Iksaif' Corentin
http://xf.iksaif.net
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