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Old 09-09-2006, 01:27 AM   #1
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what GPS unit to buy?

I have a $200 gift certificate to amazon and I want to buy a gps receiver for the carputer. I am going to be using linux with usb and need to know if amazon has something that will work.
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http://www.amazon.com/Globalsat-SiRF...ffice-products

That's a BU-353. Same unit I have. Same unit that's sold in the store here. I haven't heard of any users complain about this unit.
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That's all well and good, but the poster has a gift certificate for Amazon, so the Geeks.com deal, while a good one, isn't useful.
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My bad!!!
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Thanks guys. I ordered the BU-353 and iguidance 3. Not sure that I'll get iguidance 3 running in linux, but it will be fun trying to make it work.
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Well, I got everything today. All I had to do was apt-get install gpsd and run gpsdrive and everything showed up working. I tried to install iGuidance 3, but alas , as I expected there was no luck in that (yet)
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i havent tried ig3 in linux yet (as i currently dont have an optical drive hooked up to ANY of my linux machines.) but ive always wanted to try it in wine.
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There are several linux/iG threads. Here is the most recent thread.
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/linux/82704-iguidance-2-1-3-wine.html
Screen shots are posted in the thread

Geese and others have had some luck with Wine. I have been able to run iG v3 in crossover in ubuntu and limited success in DSL.
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