GPS (USB) FreeBSD

Michael W. Oliver michael at gargantuan.com
Thu Feb 5 14:05:48 PST 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:42:54AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Sebastian Yepes F. [ESN] wrote:
> >But are the Serial ones supported. ?
> >Any one have experience  with Serial GPS's in FreeBSD?
> 
> (I think you did not cc the list on this, so I'm doing so now)
> 
> I believe they are - I have an Etrex Vista I can try to make sure that 
> it does, but I'm fairly certain there are a handful of tools the grab 
> the data in many different formats (NMEA certainly) and can dump them to 
> text files, or whatever.
> 
> Anyone have any good experience with these tools?

I also have an eTrex Vista (which is great!) and I can confirm that it
does work with GPSDRIVE, which uses gpsd.

-- 
Mike
perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=&%C=\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E<G,*");'

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