Thomas H. George wrote: > I have an old Magellan 315 GPS which I would like to connect to a laptop > with only USB ports (OLPC). Checking the Debian packages I see three - > gpsman, gpsd and gpsbabel - which can understand the NMEA ouput from the > GPS.
You want gpsd. This can also handle hotplug events to start and stop the daemon when the GPS connects or disconnects as appropriate.
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