Package: gpsd Version: 2.39-5 Severity: wishlist
Hello I own a Altina SiRF III bt GPS with Firmware GSW3.2.2_3.1.00.12-SDK003P1.01a I once was one of those reporting that it crashes using gpsd which resulted in the -b option being added in future releases. Playing around with gpsmon I have now found a way to switch my BT gps from NMEA to SiRF binary and back quite reliably. I suppose the problem is the baudrate change (or the BT stack not reporting the baudrate correctly). So this is how I manualy switch my gps: # gpsmon /dev/rfcommX Now it is in NMEA Mode, I get a reading and it tells me it's running with some baudrate. This seams to be the baudrate of last time I opened that serical device but not the true one. I cannot set baudrate (s) or binary (n1) while in dumb NMEA Mode. Let's switch to SiRF binary: => tSiRF The display changes to SIRF but the driver falls back to NMEA. But now I can set the baudrate: => s4800 Very important, switching to any other baudrate than 4800 caused me to loose the BT connection. Switch to binary mode and reinitialize: => n1 => i Voila, the drivers successfully switches to SiRF and I get the SIRF output. But this would be one-way, as soon as I disconnect I can never reconnect without resetting my BT so it's back to NMEA. I found a way to switch it back to NMEA but that does not seam to be as reliably as from NMEA to SIRF: => n0i Sometimes then I'm back to NMEA Mode. Now I suggest an baud option to be added to gpsd to tell gpsd to switch and lock the serial line to a specific baudrate and not go around probing for the right speed. This would make it possible to switch my BT gps to SiRF reliably. Also if -n is not used gpsd would need to set the gps back to NMEA before disconnecting, else it won't be able to connect anymore. -Benoit- -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gpsd depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgps18 2.39-5 Global Positioning System - librar ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.37 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o Versions of packages gpsd recommends: ii udev 0.141-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages gpsd suggests: ii gpsd-clients 2.39-5 Global Positioning System - client -- debconf information: * gpsd/start_daemon: true * gpsd/device: /dev/rfcomm2 gpsd/brokenconfig: * gpsd/daemon_options: -b -F /var/run/gpsd.sock * gpsd/autodetection: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
