On 6/12/07, Rob . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
I'd like to know how you configured VisualGPS to let it switch the receiver
to NMEA.
(although that might be off topic here)
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.
Had the same problem, latest kernel where my ttyS0 was detected is 2.6.21.3.
However, I got it working with 2.6.22-rc4 and setserial. Check the man page,
but for me it worked
with something like
setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x3f8 auto_irq ^skip_test autoconfig
Executing setserial -ga /dev/ttyS0 afterwards reveals that irq 4 was
detected correctly.
Uli
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