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December 18, 2009 @ 16:49

Fedora needs a GPS Gnome menu?

 
There are some really cool gps applications and tools in Fedora repositories, but where are they located in Gnome menu once you install them?
 
I found some in Education (Viking), in Graphics (xgpx, xgps speed) and in Internet menu (Gpsdrive, gpsman, TangoGPS, VIking).
 
Surely GPS apps could be better grouped? Maybe they should even have their own menu? What are your thoughts on this?
 

Filed under english, fedora, gps, linux, openstreetmap · 4 Comments »

December 13, 2009 @ 23:41

iRecovery Fedora Howto

 
Some time while jailbreaking and unlocking process iPhone refuses to boot in normal mode and every time you restart your iPhone it enters in Recovery mode. This situation is named as recovery mode loop. If you are in a recovery mode loop (i.e. your phone enters recovery mode on every reboot).
 
To get the rid of recovery mode loop we use iRecovery, iRecovery is a libusb-based command line utility for Mac OS X and Linux (perhaps Windows too). It is able to talk to the iBoot/iBSS in Apple’s iPhone/iPod touch via USB. If you are on Windows then you need to install LibUsb-Win32 in order to run iRecovery.LibUsb-Win32 is a port of the USB library libusb the Windows operating system. The library allows user space applications to access any USB device on Windows.
 
There are a few gotchas on Fedora so here are step by step instrucions.
 


su -
yum install readline-devel git
exit
git clone git://github.com/westbaer/irecovery.git
cd irecovery/

 
There is a bug in irecovery.c code so in order to make it compile I needed to delete line 323 containing this code:
signal(SIGINT, irecv_quit); // Close USB on ^C
 
Use vim, gedit or any other text editor or your choice and delete this line, because it won’t compile if you don’t remove it, and you will get this error:
irecovery.c:323: error: ‘SIGINT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
 
Now we can continue the compilation process:
 


ln -s /usr/include/readline .
make linux

 
Now you have iRecovery installed and can use the instructions on how to use it to Get Rid of iPhone from Recovery Mode Loop on Restart.
 

Filed under english, fedora, linux, tips&tricks · 4 Comments »

December 4, 2009 @ 19:37

i-gotU GT200 GPS on Fedora

 
i-gotU GT200 GPS is the greatest pocket GPS gadget you can find, if you are a geek then this is one gadget you have to get.
 
Why is it so great? It is a really cheap GPS device (around 55$ or 45€), it has a great SiRF III chipset and it works as a standalone GPS logging device because it has on-board memory! Did I mention it is really cheap? ;)
 
i-gotU GT200 software that comes with it support only Windows XP, there is no support for Linux, OSX or Windows 7.
 
The good news is that there is a project called igotu2gpx that adds Linux and OSX support for this great device!
 
To get this utility running on Fedora here are step by step instructions on how to do it:

su -
yum install bzr ctags gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel boost-devel qt-devel libusb-devel chrpath
exit
bzr branch lp:igotu2gpx
cd igotu2gpx
/usr/lib/qt4/bin/qmake
make
su
make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libigotu.so.1 /lib/
exit


You can use GUI tool by running igotugui command or cli version by using igotu2gpx command.
 
To download gps tracks from your i-gotU GT200 GPS use this command:
igotu2gpx dump --gpx > track.gpx
And to clear GPS memory just use this command:
igotu2gpx --action clear
 
You can use igotU GT200 via USB cable but first you need to initialize it:
su -
modprobe navman
echo -n "0x0df7 0x0900" > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/navman/new_id

 
Now you can start gpsd and all aplications should see GPS dongle:
gpsd -b -N -D2 /dev/ttyUSB0
 
If you want to use igotU GT200 via bluetooth you can use this Bluetooth GPS Fedora howto guide to set it up.
 

Filed under english, fedora, gps, linux, openstreetmap · 1 Comment »

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