(note: even though i'm running rawhide, this issue has nothing to do
with rawhide itself, so i'm using the regular list.)

  having never messed with GPS software running on linux, one or two
truly beginner-level questions. if i want to simply buy a GPS receiver
and set up my fedora laptop to start receiving raw NMEA data, once i
purchase the receiver and install something like gpsd, is there any
additional expense in terms of a monthly service subscription or
anything like that? (i warned you this would be a dumb question.)

  i'm interested primarily in experimenting with receiving/parsing
NMEA data, the kernel modules involved, etc., so i don't need
spectacular performance or precision. i'm in california next week so i
figured i'd check out these two USB GPS receivers:

 http://www.embeddedworks.net/satl114.html
 http://www.embeddedworks.net/satl116.html

then i'd install gpsd (or equivalent if one exists), fire up a client
and start reading data. is there any more to it than that? also open
to recommendations for other GPS receivers if anyone has good
experiences.

rday

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