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Re: [VPCZ2] Enable GPS on Huawei Gobi 3000

 

I give up GobiSerial and qcserial to focus on GobiNet and GobiAPI. I
wrote some Python code to handle GPS and 3G connection. You cand find
my work here: https://github.com/hadim/gobi_manager

--
Hadrien



On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 18:49, HadiM <marelo64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi vick, I successfully connect my code to my gobi module. I am now
> stuck getting ttyUSB2 when I load qcserial knowing my gps seems to be
> enable. More informations are avaiable here:
> https://www.codeaurora.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=146&start=30
>
> --
> Hadrien
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 21:41, HadiM <marelo64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks I got the same answer from
>> https://www.codeaurora.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=146&p=200#p199 (maybe
>> is you?). You can check my answer on the same link. Unsucessfull...
>>
>> I see on many post about a firmware. On my OS, I never loaded a firmware,
>> maybe it was already there but maybe I miss the firmware too. 3G connection
>> fine, is that possible without firmware?
>>
>>
>> On 11/30/2011 09:01 PM, vick wrote:
>>>
>>> The device key is actually not supposed to show there, they key is
>>> either the MEID or IMEI depending on whether you have the CDMA or the
>>> GSM firmwares loaded. You can see the values if you look at the bottom
>>> of your laptop.
>>>
>>>
>>>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>    **I start a new thred here to talk about how to enable the GPS on
>>>
>>>    VPCZ2 for people as me who remove Windows partition as soon as I got
>>>    my laptop. Indeed Huawei Gobi 3000 is working fine with recent
>>>    kernel, however the GPS needs to be enable, and there is no easy way
>>>    to do it on Linux. It needs to be enable through Sony software with
>>>    Windows.
>>>
>>>    So I am currently trying to use GobiAPI to build a small that enable
>>>    the GPS under Linux.
>>>
>>>    You can follow current progress here:
>>>    https://www.codeaurora.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=146&p=196
>>>    <https://www.codeaurora.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=146&p=196>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> HadiM


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