Hi Henry,

  I am making a bit of progress on reading the GPS.
  It is on port ttyusb0 according to lsusb
  Bus 008 Device 006: ID 1163:0200 DeLorme Publishing, Inc.


  I found a gpsd daemon and installed it but I don't know how to get
  it to send data to the Ubuntu 10 terminal or anywhere
  else for that matter.

  The system monitor does not tell me it is running.
  The GPS is plugged in and blinking.

  Any tips on that?

  Paul Lamar

I about where you are in getting my GPS to talk to me.  Difference is
that my GPS doesnt blink at me, the red light is just steady.

I used the Ubuntu Synaptic Package Monitor and installed minicom.

On my computer the GPS plugged into usb port is usually recognized as
ttyusb0, but when the system locks up due to my fiddling around, and I
plug it in again, it will sometimes come up as ttyusb1, and once I even
saw ttyusb2 show up in the /dev directory. ???????

When I run minicom and tell it to communicate with the correct USB port,
it just sits there and listens; no data seems to be streaming from the
GPS.  I am wondering if there is some sort of a "go" command that the
GPS is looking for.

On another topic.  I just bumped into a neighbor a few minutes ago at
our local recycling center, and I mentioned my aircraft project.  He
says he has a 2004 RX8 engine in his garage that belongs to his buddy.
Says that he thinks the seals are bad. He wanst to get it out of his
garage.
What's it $worth?

R Berglund

What version of Ubuntu are you using Robin?
There are at least 2 formats in use. Most popular
is ASCII NEMA 0183. I think the other is binary.

Offer him $50 :)


Paul Lamar


I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS  (Lucid Linux)
I downloaded Oracle VM Virtual Box free from their web site and run it
installed on top of Linux.  I can therefore play with WINXP programs on
the same machine, but I am not sure if I can access the USB port
interchangeably from both systems at the same time.  That would be a
neat feature for testing.

R