Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:28:47 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tangoGPS && FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <20081105082847.GA2900@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20081104173559.2901b14e@fabiankeil.de> References: <20081029092516.GA3095@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20081030195105.1b5a154d@fabiankeil.de> <20081030192026.GA5498@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20081104173559.2901b14e@fabiankeil.de>
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El día Tuesday, November 04, 2008 a las 05:35:59PM +0100, Fabian Keil escribió: > > tangoGPS compiled and works just fine in FreeBSD, just the usual way: > > > > ./configure > > make > > make install > > Good to know. Are you already working on a port? I could and will do that by the end of the year in my free days around the change of the year; > > 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. Yes, this works very nice; but for folks without a FR there should be choices as well, i.e. a small list of GPS gadgets which work with FreeBSD USB drivers; Concerning gpsd running on the FR, I encounter that tangoGPS tries to connect to 127.0.0.1 and not to the configured host 192.168.0.202; you have to press the GPSD button in tangoGPS config page to make it connect to the remote host; will check the sources for this bug/feature... matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows
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