Hello, When you have finished your initial connectivity problem there is a good thread on porting a GPS module to Android here:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/c67550378823a0d4/693b60380dfd6538#693b60380dfd6538 Best regards, Mikkel Christensen Chief Software Engineer Ixonos Denmark ApS On Oct 20, 4:42 pm, Hamilton Vera <hamilton.lis...@gmail.com> wrote: > In fact is the USB Modem (CDC ACM) support > > │ Symbol: USB_ACM [=y] > > │ > │ Prompt: USB Modem (CDC ACM) support > > │ > │ Defined at drivers/usb/class/Kconfig:7 > > │ > │ Depends on: USB_SUPPORT && USB > > │ > │ Location: > > │ > │ -> Device Drivers > > │ > │ -> USB support (USB_SUPPORT [=y]) > > │ > │ > > You can set it using: > > setprop ro.kernel.android.gps ttyACM0 > > []'s > > Hamilton Vera > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Ashwin Bihari <abih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've interfaced a UART based GPS device within Android and for that I > > wrote a driver that opened up the UART, grab the NMEA strings and > > parsed. I use the freerunner's GPS file as a starting point, > > especially for the NMEA parsing stuff. You can do the same, the only > > difference being that instead of opening a UART to get access to the > > GPS chip, you'll need to figure out how this USB-based GPS chip wants > > to communicate and open up the device in that manner. > > > If the chip wants to behave like a UART device, you'll want to enable > > the USB-Serial driver to create a /dev/ttyACM0 device or something and > > read from that device.. > > > Regards > > -- Ashwin > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ne0 <neeraj1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> Im trying to interface a USB based GPS device on Beagleboard running > >> Android eclair. I have connected the GPS device through a USB hub. > > >> Everytime I connect the GPS device, i get the following msg on the > >> console: > > >> usb 1-2.4: new full speed USB device using ehci-omap and address 5 > > >> My goal is to get the NMEA data on the console or in a file. Any idea > >> whr i need to start?? > >> I was looking at the documentation given with the distribution which > >> talks about adding your own device etc. > > >> Thanks in advance :) > > >> -- > >> unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >> website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > -- > > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > -- > Hamilton Vera > int Administrator (char Network[],char > ComputationalSystems[])http://hvera.wordpress.com -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
