[Qgis-developer] thanks for the gpsd support!

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Giovanni,

On Thu, 07. Oct 2010 at 20:08:52 +0100, Giovanni Manghi wrote:
> it seems that with the garmin_gps kernel module loaded the connection
> via gpsbabel does not work anymore (at least on Ubuntu), but gps tools
> work using /dev/ttyUSB0! this should be documented.

Not really.  The gps tools uses gpsbabel.  gpsbabel can access the garmin
directly via usb w/o a special kernel driver.

The garmin_gps module provides a /dev/ttyUSBn device for the garmin.  At the
same time is blocks direct usb accesses to the GPS.  So when the module is
loaded, gpsbabel cannot be used with "-f usb:" anymore.

However gps tools/gpsbabel apparently can use the /dev/ttyUSBn device to access
the gps.  I just downloaded waypoints, routes and tracks from my hcx, which
garmin_gps (of kernel 2.6.34.1) was loaded.  Although [1] claims that this is
"depressingly uncommon".

Still that probably won't work while gpsd is running.


Jürgen 

[1] http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html
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