On Wednesday 31 March 2010 15.05.38 Ralph Smith wrote: > Sorry about the long delay. Appendicitis has a way of getting one's > attention.
It's OK, I understand and the priority sounds right :-) > On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Goran Sandin wrote: > > On Sunday 28 February 2010 19.15.41 Ralph Smith wrote: > >>> Can I use gpsd in between the rs-232 port and ntpd? > >> > >> You can if you want. You would then configure ntpd to use the shared > >> memory driver rather than the NMEA driver. The only reason to do this is > >> if you want to use some of the features of gpsd to share and monitor the > >> gps information. It won't give you any more accuracy than the NMEA > >> driver you are currently using. > >> > >>> I guess it would be possible to send requests for gps-info from another > >>> computer to net4501? > >> > >> Exactly. > >> > >>> Any ideas of how to configure this? > >> > >> If you want to pursue this it's fairly straightforward. > > > > It's OK, I understand that it will not make the result better. But as > > long as it does not make it less accurate I am curios to give it a try. > > > > Can you give me some hints of how to do it? > > > > I guess I have to compile gpsd on the computer where I build the CF? > > > > But how do I make it appear in the nanobsd image? > > Short answer is to build the port, create the package from the port, and > have the nanoBSD script install the package. You will need to tweak the > gpsd build so it doesn't include all the python and X11 stuff. I can > provide more details if needed. Yes please, I like to read the long answer also. For the moment my net4501 is still open and not in use. After I saw it worked, I decided to make a pcb for the cables and some other interface circuits. I probably have to wait another two-three weeks before I receive it. > Ralph /Göran _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
