philippe::niquille | irregular niche market thoughts

You want to get a nmea GPS to work with your Ipaq/Zaurus running linux?

• add the bt address to the default /etc/rfcomm.conf (optain it with hcitools scan)
• start bluetooth using your favourite opie/gpe tool or try hciattach -p /dev/ttySB0 bcsp 230400
• start gpsd with gpsd -p /dev/bluetooth/rfcomm/0
• test if you get a signal with telnet localhost 2947, type r, enter and you should see the nmea output in one second steps
  cat /dev/bluetooth/rfcomm/0 works too, this opens the serial port directly and doesn’t check the functionality of gpsd.

Until now I couldn’t get my gps working with the most recent familiar 0.8.2. I get a ‘Permission denied’ when accessing the /dev/bluetooth/rfcomm/0 device.
But it works with version 0.8.1.

references:
OpieWiki
HandheldsWiki

On 0.8.2 it could also be a PIN problem.