You're right, it means a lot to see the GPS functionality in ANY way. :) Thank you for posting this.
On 8/29/07, Mike Montour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the Neo1973's big selling points is its Hammerhead AGPS chip, > however (with the exception of a few P0 developers) we haven't been able > to do anything with it yet due to the lack of a driver. > > I have recently joined the "Sphyrna" reverse-engineering project at > http://projects.linuxtogo.org/projects/sphyrna (linked from > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hammerhead/Protocol), and with the > assistance of the information provided there I have put together a quick > and (very) dirty program called "satscan". > > This program scans for signals from GPS satellites at several different > Doppler-shifted frequencies, as a real GPS receiver would do during a > "cold start" acquisition. It displays symbols on the screen representing > the strength of each detected signal. > > That's _all_ that it does - this program does not receive any navigation > data from the satellites, does not compute a position fix, or anything > else. It is strictly a 'toy' application, but at least it lets you > confirm that your Neo1973 actually has a GPS chip installed. :) > > It's available for download at: > http://members.shaw.ca/mmontour/satscan/satscan_1.0-r0_armv4t.ipk and it > was built against a fairly recent 2007.2 image. You might need to > "--force-depends" the installation. A source tarball is in the same > directory, but I can't provide assistance on how to set up your > development environment to build it. > > I don't plan to maintain this program - it's a one-off demo. However I > will continue to contribute to the reverse-engineering efforts, and I > encourage any other interested developers to do the same. > > >
