Do you mean that your earthmate doesn't work with gpsd anymore?

The serial cable went bad.

Gpsd is an option (the code is there), but we can't open a tcp connection to localhost ... because the disks are not writable a named pipe or unix domain socket is probably hard

That's worth investigating. If it can be done I'll add it. Russ promised to release the patch I sent him in a gpsd 1.07 soon so maybe if I get my butt in gear...