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Date:      Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:35:59 +0100
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tangoGPS && FreeBSD 7.0
Message-ID:  <20081104173559.2901b14e@fabiankeil.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081030192026.GA5498@rebelion.Sisis.de>
References:  <20081029092516.GA3095@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20081030195105.1b5a154d@fabiankeil.de> <20081030192026.GA5498@rebelion.Sisis.de>

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Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> wrote:

> El d=EDa Thursday, October 30, 2008 a las 07:51:05PM +0100, Fabian Keil e=
scribi=F3:
>=20
> > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
> >=20
> > > 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 ma=
ps
> > > of OpenStreetMap and a bigger display). What kind of USB based GPS
> > > devices could be used in this eeePC with FreeBSD 7.0?
> >=20
> > Using your FreeRunner seems like an obvious choice to me.
> >=20
> > I got one as well, but I'm not aware of a tangoGPS port
> > for FreeBSD and haven't looked into how much effort
> > porting it would take either.
>=20
> tangoGPS compiled and works just fine in FreeBSD, just the usual way:
>=20
> ./configure
> make
> make install

Good to know. Are you already working on a port?

> it needs a gps daemon which is in the ports, and you need some GPS
> device RS232 or USB based and the web pages of gpsd have a long list
> of compatibel devices, for sure not all tested with FreeBSD; will see if
> I could check some out in the near future;

I was thinking about running tangoGPS on FreeBSD and
connecting it to the gpsd already running on the Freerunner.

Fabian

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