Bug#640391: linux-image-3.0.0-1-686-pae: ark3116 driver regression

[ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com>]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:38:04PM +0200, Bart Hartgers wrote:
> > Hope something here gives a clue...
> >
> Alas, no. As far as I can tell, the hardware is correctly setup to do
> 9600N8 without rtscts handshaking. Nothing in the log about a failing
> transmit, so it seems that gpsbabel's command goes out to the device,
> but somehow nothing is received in response.

I am now worrying that the garmin connector was not making proper
contact. I will try and test again tomorrow, first on the old kernel
so that I am sure there is a good connection, and then try again on
3.0.nnn. But I suspect that it was making contact: I tried to check
carefully, although that is not always reliable.

> I'll try to see if my
> 3116 still works with a 3.0 kernel, hopefully tomorrow. Maybe that
> brings us further.

Thanks again,

ael