David McMullen asks:
Can you guide me to a good tutorial that will help me install GPS (using an external GPS antenna) on my Linux laptop? Compaq 2000 with Linux Mint 13.
So far, I just get an error when I try to activate GPSD, that says that GPSD can’t… that maybe there is already an instance of GPSD running. I’m stuck. I’ve never used GPS.
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Rob Hindle
January 17, 2013When you say “using an external GPS ANTENNA” do you mean “using an external GPS RECEIVER” – as far as I’m aware the laptop itself is unlikely to have GPS receiver on-board.
Apart from that, the best place to look for help getting GPSD running will be the troubleshooting guide http://catb.org/gpsd/troubleshooting.html
Erlis Dhima
January 18, 2013Probably when you buy a GPS reciever, the cd with the setup, might have the setup for linux too (ususally they have a official web page too)
After installing the setup, it should have a program to use the GPS options..
I don’t know how I might help you better, but it would be better if you told me the name and version of your GPS reciever..
You can also try reading on this pages, since they might help you:
http://www.gps2003.com/install-gps-navigator-to-laptop-netbook-pc.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1019059.html
ha14
January 18, 2013perhaps to install gpsd and gpsd-clients
http://www.catb.org/gpsd/
http://gpsd.berlios.de/troubleshooting.html
plug gps and run lsusb, GPS appearing as a serial port. /var/log/syslog you will also notice it will have created the port as /dev/ttyUSB0 (or another USB)
then run
sudo apt-get install gpsd gpsd-clients
sudo gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0 -F /var/run/gpsd.sock
GPS dongle, gpsd, and Ubuntu 11.10
http://cheesehead-techblog.blogspot.fr/2011/11/gps-dongle-gpsd-and-ubuntu-1110.html
apt-get install gpsdrive
http://www.gpsdrive.de/development/Zaurus/debian.shtml
http://gpsdrive.1045374.n5.nabble.com/gpsdrive-Easy-way-to-install-gpsdrive-2-12pre-on-Ubuntu-td3382881.html
Review: Four GPS Software Packages for Linux
http://www.fsckin.com/2008/04/06/review-four-linux-gps-packages/