Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:20:26 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tangoGPS && FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <20081030192026.GA5498@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20081030195105.1b5a154d@fabiankeil.de> References: <20081029092516.GA3095@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20081030195105.1b5a154d@fabiankeil.de>
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El día Thursday, October 30, 2008 a las 07:51:05PM +0100, Fabian Keil escribió: > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> 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? > > Using your FreeRunner seems like an obvious choice to me. > > 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. tangoGPS compiled and works just fine in FreeBSD, just the usual way: ./configure make make install 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; 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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