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

[Thomas Sprinzing]

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