Re: [ gpsdrive ] Re: Support for USB GPS?

["Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)" <gpsdrive@ostertag.name>]

On Friday 02 February 2007 03:33, kd4e wrote:
> Same discussion as below but if Bluetooth will not
> be supported for quite a while could I use a USB model?
>
> Seems many of the new GPS devices are USB rather than
> Serial.
>
> Sure hate to fuss around with a USB-Serial adapter if
> that can be avoided.

All modern USB-GPS use kind of an internal USB-Serial Converter. So what I did 
here is put 
/etc/modules:
	pl2303
ant then here on my debian machine use 
	/dev/ttyUSB0 
as device for the gpsd.


> Still would be really awesome to avoid cables all together
> with Bluetooth!  :-)
>
> > With the wonderful assistance of a couple of folks on
> > the Puppy Linux Forum I have GPSdrive working on my
> > laptop.
> >
> > (Puppy is one of the best small linux distros.)
> >
> > I would really like to use GPSdrive with a Bluetooth
> > GPS.
> >
> > One such affordable device is the BT-5 for $44.
> > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BT-5&cat=GPS
> >
> > Has anyone tried a Bluetooth GPS?
> >
> > Do they work with GPSdrive?

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