[OSM-newbies] Fedora and bluetooth gps (openstreetmap.org) howto ?

[Yuri Magrisso]

TrekBuddy lists K750i as supported device -
http://wiki.trekbuddy.net/index.php/Installation

I haven't used my BT GPS device with Fedora yet, but my guess is that if you
follow first any of the tutorials for connecting to Internet via Bluetooth
phone and then a tutorial about GPSD you'll get it working.
Basically, you need to make sure you have Bluez and tools installed, find
out the BT address of your device, configure rfcomm.conf, connect to the
device and then run GPSD on the com port you opened with rfcomm.

Here's something I used for the Internet connection -
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=179710&highlight=nokia+bluetooth+internet
http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=651852

Yuri

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Yuri Magrisso <yumariso at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you have a Nokia S60 phone (N73, N82, 6120c, N95) you can install the
> > Nokia Sports Tracker and record GPS tracks with the phone.
> >
> > This combo is somewhat easier to carry around :)
> >
> > You can get the Sports Tracker from here:
> > http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/main/index.do
> >
> > Yuri
>
> I have Asus eee with fedora 9 installed (not too hard to carry around)
>
> I have two phones: SonyEricsson K750 and LG KU990 Viewty. And
> suggestions for any of them?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
>
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