Thread: N9- No Internal GPS
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minimos is offline minimos
2013-08-23 , 04:55
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#9
If you enable the access to console, you could investigate if the GPS device is alive and detected from the system logs.
E.g. during boot, the file /var/log/syslog logs this:
Code:
...
[    9.553222] wl1273_fm_module_init
[    9.713623] Loading BCM4751 GPS driver
[    9.742248] OMAP SSI hw driver loaded
...
You can check that kernel driver is loaded (however, that probably doesn't happen in your case):
Code:
$ lsmod | grep -i gps
bcm4751_gps             3913  1
And then at lower level, here is the device:
Code:
$ find /sys/devices/platform | grep -i gps
/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.3/i2c-3/3-01fa/misc/bcm4751-gps
/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.3/i2c-3/3-01fa/misc/bcm4751-gps/uevent
/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.3/i2c-3/3-01fa/misc/bcm4751-gps/dev
/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.3/i2c-3/3-01fa/misc/bcm4751-gps/subsystem
/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.3/i2c-3/3-01fa/misc/bcm4751-gps/device
/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.3/i2c-3/3-01fa/misc/bcm4751-gps/power
/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.3/i2c-3/3-01fa/misc/bcm4751-gps/power/wakeup
 

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