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The Neo1973 device contains an integrated GPS. The particular device is marketed as an AGPS, and there is some discussion available as to what significance that "A" might have.
Note that the GTA02 device contains u-blox ANTARIS 4 solution, you could find more hardware related information before GTA02 hardware page.
Assisted GPS performance requirement also defined in GSM/GPRS 3GPP TS 25.171, CDMA 3GPP2 C.S0036-0
Main article - gllin
The GPS driver is available here: http://3rdparty.downloads.openmoko.org/gllin/. It is a command line tool that after starting writes the positioning data so that they can be read as if they were written to the file.
And here the Mail from Michael Shiloh http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-November/011916.html
In the very early shipment to 50 Phase 1 developers, a binary-only program for talking to the the GPS was accidentally included
in /home/root/DM2/gps, (and presumably, the same binary would function on a P0 device).
This binary is called gllin and it is a oabi binary, i.e. it will only work in the 2007.1 Openmoko environment. There is now a eabi binary, which works with 2007.2.
There was an effort to write a Free Software program that could be used instead of this binary-only program, but this stalled after the decision to change GPS chips in GTA02.
See Hammerhead/Protocol for details and the latest status.
Some scripts for those with the binary are on Manually_using_GPS
Please see the important information on Gllin!
For detailed GTA02 u-blox 4 GPS information, please check here: GTA02 GPS
To turn on the GPS, echo 1 to the file /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron
To read from the GPS, simply read /dev/ttySAC1.
cat /dev/ttySAC1 will work fine.
Before getting a fix, the GPS spits out lots of "$GPTXT,01,01,01,NMEA unknown msg*58", though these stop once a fix is obtained. A position without a fix looks like:
One with a fix:
0515,*7A
(central Scotland)
--Speedevil 11:52, 7 April 2008 (CEST)
In Openmoko projects, you could find a GPS test program that could provide graphical and text dump of GPS information. This project called Openmoko AGPS UI project.
As people develop more sophisticated GPS applications, please note them here.
Here are some ideas for possibilities:
To make your neo appear like a regular bluetooth GPS: