GPS ports in uhso

Fredrik Lindberg fli at shapeshifter.se
Mon Jan 13 09:03:49 UTC 2014


On 13.01.2014 03:28, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been playing around getting GPS working with my GTM661W and the
> uhso driver.
> 
> The ports are defined in uhso.c but in the method
> uhso_probe_iface_auto
> the GPS and GPSCTL ports are not in the switch(port) case. Is there a
> reason for this?
> 

The only reason is that I didn't have a modem with a GPS port to test 
with
when I wrote it, so I never added it since I didn't know if anything 
else
was needed to get it working.

> I tried simply adding like this
> 
> 823 case UHSO_PORT_TYPE_MODEM:
> 824 return (UHSO_IFACE_SPEC(UHSO_IF_BULK,
> 825 UHSO_PORT_SERIAL, port));
> 826 case UHSO_PORT_TYPE_MSD:
> 
> to
> 
> 823 case UHSO_PORT_TYPE_GPS:
>  824 case UHSO_PORT_TYPE_GPSCTL:
> 825 case UHSO_PORT_TYPE_MODEM:
> 826 return (UHSO_IFACE_SPEC(UHSO_IF_BULK,
> 827 UHSO_PORT_SERIAL, port));
> 828 case UHSO_PORT_TYPE_MSD:
> 
> Sorry for the manual patch. I can send a patch file later if needed.
>  I don't have an antenna at the moment so I can't confirm that the
> data is accurate
> but I'm getting output similar to what I expect in the GPS port and I
> can control it via the GPSCTL port.
> 

If you get GPS data and are able to use the port, then just add it :)

Fredrik



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