Reply to: pabs@debian.org Original Message Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:39:45 +0900 RE: Re: garmin mounts as ttyUSB0 [See Original Message Below] Naah. One of you talented DDs will come up with something. Maybe. I'm just some guy ;) It's not the end of the world, I'll just **cough** boot vista for now. Thank you for your replies. If anyone else cares to lend a word to this conversation, that would be cool. --machiner ----------------------------------------- On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:39:45 +0900 pabs@debian.org wrote: >On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:05 PM, machiner <machiner@debiantutorials.org> wrote: > >> Moreover, being a long-time user of Debian, I have always written to companies and >> asked for exactly what you have suggested, or similar. As we all know, we usually >> don't get positive or proactive responses. No "business case" is what we usually >> hear. Pfft. >> >> http://www.debiantutorials.org/no-dice.png >> http://www.debiantutorials.org/communication1.png > >Bummer :( > >> Establishes it. Of course, I cannot mount /dev/gps0 because it's not a block >> device (I'm looking...). And the webupdater utility still refuses to see the >> device. >> >> What rials me is that I have read about successful mounts in Ubuntu with the .27 >> kernel. Grrrr. Although not with the model I have. However a Garmin driver >> has been part of the kernel for a while already. IIRC. >> >> Worst case is that I walk upstairs and boot my kids Vista install (they dual boot >> with Debian and never boot to ...vista, eww.) to accomplish this task, but...I'd >> rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon. This is Linux - there is a way! > >Sounds like a weird device. I imagine you'll need to reverse engineer >the protocol if you want to be able to do it in Linux. >
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