Thanks!> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx' - Alpha i386 (20100113)> ProcVersionSign ature: Ubuntu 2.6.32- 12.17-genericGPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-genericBernd, thanks for the quick fix. No idea if this is device specific or not as> the only other GPS receiver I have is the older Pharos GPS-360 which has> Don't believe this is related but running on an Asus eeepc 901.> Please let me know if I can provide additional information. Restarting xgps doesn't seem to help.> So apparently gpsd needs a kick even when the device is in the config> BTW, I never got this device to auto-detect in Jaunty either, so this is> likely not a regression. The> Pharos GPS-500 is an SiRF device (don't know more about it - this one> Another perhaps related problem is that if I unplug / replug the device,> even if it associates with the same ttyUSB0 device gpsd doesn't supply> data to xgps unless I 'sudo /etc/init.d/gpsd restart', which always> seems to reconnect to the device. In case you don'tKnow what to do exactly, just plug the device in your computer and runUdevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/ttyUSB0)> On Lucid (fully patched as of today) I installed gpsd and left the> default /etc/default/gpsd config but xgps gets no data.> I could see the device showing up as 'usb 2-2: pl2303 converter now> attached to ttyUSB0' in kern.log so I ran 'dpkg-reconfigure gpsd' to add> /dev/ttyUSB0 to the DEVICES line and xgps could now get a fix. Thanks!InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx' - Alpha i386 (20100113)ProcVersionSign ature: Ubuntu 2.6.32- 12.17-genericPlease tell me the vendor and product id as reported in sysfs.

BTW, both Microsoft devices have Pharos on the tag on the back.So I think the change should be a comment in 40-gpsd.rules rather than a new rule altogether.To verify I commented out the launchpad-bug-518213.rulesI had created and now I can see a single /dev/gps* device appear when the device is plugged and see the dev go away when it is unplugged. I see the USB vendor/product is unchanged between the two units (I confirmed both have same IDs - bad Microsoft / Pharos!). Rules:# PS-360 OEM (Microsoft GPS sold with Street and Trips 2005)SYSFS='aaa0', SYMLINK='gps%n', RUN+='/lib/udev/gpsd.hotplug.wrapper'The Pharos GPS-500 also came with a version of Streets & Trips but is a newer version of the hardware (I also have the older GPS-360 which doesn't even work on Vista with the current Microsoft drivers, or else the unit is bad now).

Pharos Gps 500 Driver