Got Earthmate USB GPS, now what? Options

[lwong]

I took the plunge and got the Delorme Earthmate USB GPS.

The 6000 recognize it right away as "Delorme USB Earthmate". dmesg says something about

USB HID v1.00 Pointer [Delorme Publishing Delorme Earthmate] on usb 1.27.0

Now what do I do? I installed qpegps but the defualt path is

-p /dev/ttyS0 -s -4800

Is that for connection through serial cale? What should I change it to?

One good thing about the setup is that the Z can power the GPS all by itself. The bad is that if qpegps is run in 640x480 mode, it looks skewed.

Please help me set this up.

Thanks

FW

[lardman]

Next suggestion - see which module is grabbing the device (one of the HID ones) and rmmod it, then run the above code and see if that does anything to help.

I suggest this as the code which ought to do this:

CODE

usb_detach_kernel_driver_np(em_device.udev, 0);

Does return an error code if it fails, but it's not checked by emul.

Might also be worth running strace on it to make sure what it's attempting to open is the right thing (if the above doesn't work).


Si

This post has been edited by lardman: May 11 2005, 09:12 AM

[Gondola]

Ok, I need to verify the file names from the libusb package, so I'm trying to unpack the .ipk for it.

When I try to download ipkg-utils from the 3.5.3 feed it complains that python is a requirement that it can't satisfy. I tried installing python-core but I don't see a just plain python, and it won't install without it.