[Bug 518213] [NEW] gpsd not autodetecting Pharos GPS-500

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Hi,

please tell me the vendor and product id as reported in sysfs. In case you don't
know what to do exactly, just plug the device in your computer and run

udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/ttyUSB0)

and send the output to this bugreport.

Thanks and cheers,

Bernd


Walter_Wittel wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: gpsd
> 
> On Lucid (fully patched as of today) I installed gpsd and left the
> default /etc/default/gpsd config but xgps gets no data.
> 
> I could see the device showing up as "usb 2-2: pl2303 converter now
> attached to ttyUSB0" in kern.log so I ran "dpkg-reconfigure gpsd" to add
> /dev/ttyUSB0 to the DEVICES line and xgps could now get a fix. The
> Pharos GPS-500 is an SiRF device (don't know more about it - this one
> came with Microsoft Streets & Trips.
> 
> Another perhaps related problem is that if I unplug / replug the device,
> even if it associates with the same ttyUSB0 device gpsd doesn't supply
> data to xgps unless I "sudo /etc/init.d/gpsd restart", which always
> seems to reconnect to the device. Restarting xgps doesn't seem to help.
> So apparently gpsd needs a kick even when the device is in the config
> file.
> 
> BTW, I never got this device to auto-detect in Jaunty either, so this is
> likely not a regression. No idea if this is device specific or not as
> the only other GPS receiver I have is the older Pharos GPS-360 which has
> the same problem.
> 
> Don't believe this is related but running on an Asus eeepc 901.
> 
> Please let me know if I can provide additional information. Thanks!
> 
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sat Feb  6 13:52:07 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
> Package: gpsd 2.39-8ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic
> SourcePackage: gpsd
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686
> 
> ** Affects: gpsd (Ubuntu)
>      Importance: Undecided
>          Status: New
> 
> 
> ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
> 


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