From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 14:55:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D461065686 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:55:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mickey242@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91DCD8FC0C for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:55:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mickey242@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2008 14:28:20 -0000 Received: from brln-4d0c5ffc.pool.mediaWays.net (EHLO gunhead.enforcer.cc) [77.12.95.252] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 29 Oct 2008 15:28:20 +0100 X-Authenticated: #8913523 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19oL8hLs2lop2Xw8vfEoGPuvKcZl0vAeOqha49KJV uH3kM4s5AneBk/ Message-ID: <490872FF.8020001@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:28:15 +0100 From: Andreas Wetzel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Apitz References: <20081029092516.GA3095@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20081029092516.GA3095@rebelion.Sisis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.58 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tangoGPS && FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:55:02 -0000 Hi Matthias Apitz wrote: > Is anybody aware of a port of tangoGPS http://www.tangogps.org/gps/cat/About > to FreeBSD 7.0? It runs it in my Linux based cellphone Openmoko > FreeRunner and it would be nice to have it as well in my eeePC (just for > having better capacity for cached maps of OpenStreetMap and a bigger > display). What kind of USB based GPS devices could be used in this > eeePC with FreeBSD 7.0? I think every GPS receiver that outputs messages in generic NMEA 0183 format should do. A small problem could be the serial to USB converter chipset used in the device, as most manufacturers do not mention the chip type anywhere in their specs. I have successfully been using a GPS-M Pro USB receiver with MTK chipset with navit (http://www.navit-project.org/) and gpsd (astro/gpsd). In order to get it to work, i had to get the uslcom driver from 7-stable though, which is not contained in 7.0-RELEASE. Maybe you want to take a look at gpsd (http://gpsd.berlios.de/), which supports a wide variety of GPS devices and provides the data to gpsd aware applications. Kind regards -- Keep it icy man. I don't want to end up a corpse before my time because you were daydreaming.