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Re: OT:How to Connect GPS to Laptop?



Thomas H. George wrote:
> I have an old Magellan 315 GPS which I would like to connect to a laptop
> with only USB ports (OLPC).  Checking the Debian packages I see three -
> gpsman, gpsd and gpsbabel - which can understand the NMEA ouput from the
> GPS.  

You want gpsd.  This can also handle hotplug events to start and stop
the daemon when the GPS connects or disconnects as appropriate.

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