Sorry about the long delay. Appendicitis has a way of getting one's attention.
On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Goran Sandin wrote: > On Sunday 28 February 2010 19.15.41 Ralph Smith wrote: >>> Can I use gpsd in between the rs-232 port and ntpd? >> >> You can if you want. You would then configure ntpd to use the shared memory >> driver rather than the NMEA driver. The only reason to do this is if you >> want to use some of the features of gpsd to share and monitor the gps >> information. It won't give you any more accuracy than the NMEA driver you >> are currently using. >> >>> I guess it would be possible to send requests for gps-info from another >>> computer to net4501? >> >> Exactly. >> >>> Any ideas of how to configure this? >> >> If you want to pursue this it's fairly straightforward. > > It's OK, I understand that it will not make the result better. But as long as > it does not make it less accurate I am curios to give it a try. > > Can you give me some hints of how to do it? > > I guess I have to compile gpsd on the computer where I build the CF? > > But how do I make it appear in the nanobsd image? Short answer is to build the port, create the package from the port, and have the nanoBSD script install the package. You will need to tweak the gpsd build so it doesn't include all the python and X11 stuff. I can provide more details if needed. Ralph _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
