how to use gps receiver bu-353 in ubuntu 10.10

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Published on 2011-03-16T05:56:12Z Indexed on 2011/03/16 8:18 UTC
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Hi I have a gps receiver bu-353 with usb interface i want to know how can i use it under ubuntu I ran the following command gpsd -n -N -D 2 /dev/ttyUSB0 i got the output as:

gpsd: launching (Version 2.94) gpsd: listening on port gpsd gpsd: running with effective group ID 1000 gpsd: running with effective user ID 1000 gpsd: opening GPS data source type 3 at '/dev/ttyUSB0' gpsd: speed 38400, 8N1 gpsd: Garmin: garmin_gps Linux USB module not active. gpsd: speed 9600, 8O1 gpsd: speed 38400, 8N1 gpsd: gpsd_activate(): opened GPS (fd 6) gpsd: speed 4800, 8N1 gpsd: NTPD ntpd_link_activate: 0 gpsd: /dev/ttyUSB0 identified as type SiRF binary (2.687608 sec @ 4800bps) gpsd: detaching 127.0.0.1 (sub 1, fd 8) in detach_client gpsd: detaching 127.0.0.1 (sub 1, fd 8) in detach_client

after this i started tangoGPS, which said no gps and no gpsd found

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