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On 16/02/10 11:25, tom wrote:
Gordon Henderson wrote:On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, tom wrote:I've been given a GPS compact flash BC-307 and was wondering if anyone had a clue about how to get it functioning on linux. I've tried plugging it into a usb multi function card reader and it turns on the little red light for a while but I cant seem to get anything else out of it or find software to use it . OK it will only tell me I'm sitting in front of my pc to less accuracy than I can guess with my eyes shut but I'm a geek and that will make me happy for several days!What does it look like to the OS? ie. what's the output of dmesg when you plug it in... Older GPSs used to have a serial port connection and there is a standard or 2 for exchanging data with a GPS - maybe this comes up as a serial device?
It doesnt appear to the OS, same on windows - from what I've read it is passive - you have to ask it for information otherwise it just sits there. I've loaded the gpsd and stuff but I havent found out how to call it yet!
I seriously doubt this will work. Notice the forum link was for OESF, and in particular was discussing getting it working with the Linux based Sharp Zaurus, which has a real CF slot.
Card readers and the like almost certainly have no idea what to do with a non-storage device.
Even if you got one of those IDE-CF adapters (CF was designed to be backwards compatible with IDE afaik), I doubt that would work with this. I suspect that CF has extensions for non storage devices. I could be wrong, but even if hardware-wise you can run CF over IDE, drivers are a different matter. You would need to get the kernel to use that IDE slot as a CF device somehow.
There must be pages on this somewhere, but I can't find any. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html