Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El día Thursday, October 30, 2008 a las 07:51:05PM +0100, Fabian Keil > escribió: > > > Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is anybody aware of a port of tangoGPS > > > http://www.tangogps.org/gps/cat/About to FreeBSD 7.0? It runs it in my > > > Linux based cellphone Openmoko FreeRunner and it would be nice to have > > > it as well in my eeePC (just for having better capacity for cached maps > > > of OpenStreetMap and a bigger display). What kind of USB based GPS > > > devices could be used in this eeePC with FreeBSD 7.0? > > > > Using your FreeRunner seems like an obvious choice to me. > > > > I got one as well, but I'm not aware of a tangoGPS port > > for FreeBSD and haven't looked into how much effort > > porting it would take either. > > tangoGPS compiled and works just fine in FreeBSD, just the usual way: > > ./configure > make > make install
Good to know. Are you already working on a port? > it needs a gps daemon which is in the ports, and you need some GPS > device RS232 or USB based and the web pages of gpsd have a long list > of compatibel devices, for sure not all tested with FreeBSD; will see if > I could check some out in the near future; I was thinking about running tangoGPS on FreeBSD and connecting it to the gpsd already running on the Freerunner. Fabian
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