Re: [Xastir] New toy, but doesn't work yet.....

[Kurt A. Freiberger]

I hae to go outside to get a fix.  My Nuvi 350 works just fine indoors.

kf


Thomas Sprinzing wrote:

On 5-Jun-09, at 12:06 PM, Kurt A. Freiberger wrote:

I just got a Sprint AirCard (Merlin EX720) that has GPS capabilities. It's on a MacBook Pro. I can see the data:

kosh:dev kurt$ cat /dev/cu.wwancntl2
$GPGGA,235945.0,5717.746771,N,05717.746771,E,0,32,99.9,1.0,M,,,,*3B
$GPGSA,A,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*1E
$GPGSV,3,1,12,14,65,320,,22,63,035,,18,42,084,,31,29,191,*7F
$GPGSV,3,2,12,21,17,154,,09,16,039,,19,14,275,,06,11,236,*76
$GPGSV,3,3,12,30,11,118,,03,08,248,,12,07,085,,26,07,050,*7B
$GPVTG,,T,,M,,N,,K*4E
$GPRMC,,V,,,,,,,,,,N*53
$GPGGA,235945.0,5717.746771,N,05717.746771,E,0,32,99.9,1.0,M,,,,*3B
$GPGSA,A,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*1E
$GPGSV,3,1,12,14,65,320,,22,63,035,,18,42,084,,31,29,191,*7F
$GPGSV,3,2,12,21,17,154,,09,15,039,,19,14,275,,06,11,236,*75
$GPGSV,3,3,12,30,11,118,,03,08,248,,12,07,085,,26,07,050,*7B
$GPVTG,,T,,M,,N,,K*4E
$GPRMC,,V,,,,,,,,,,N*53

a) try to run via gpsd.

b) why is the GPRMC broken, while GPGGA looks fine? The card has got a fix, does it?

cheers

Thomas
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