[OSM-talk] NaviGPS... help! :-)

[Tom Hughes]

In message <348bd6da0710140035k3da4e8ddo45f475f345b5df3a at mail.gmail.com>
          "Corey Burger" <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:

> n 10/14/07, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
>
> > Borrowed some of the Navi GPS units for the Winchester weekend but having
> > big trouble getting Linux, Windows and Mac boxes to recognise them. Seems
> > the only way is to get drivers for them (which at a guess means Linux may
> > be out).... is that correct?
> 
> For the windows and Mac OS X machines, maybe, but for the Linux
> machines, all you need a reasonably up to date distro (SUSE 10.X,
> Ubuntu 6.06+, Fedora 6+, etc) as the garmin drivers were merged into
> mainline around the 2.6.11 period. You will need the gpsbabel program.

The NaviGPS is not a Garmin...

The Navi uses a standard USB->Serial bridge chip which linux does
handle so ut should appear as /dev/ttyUSB0 when you plug it in. You
can then use the navilink.pl script that Google should be able to
find to download from it.

You can only download the internal data that way though - any NMEA logs
on the SD card will need to be recivered with a card reader.

Tom

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