Re: Garmin GPS-18 connected by USB
Should be part of the kernel source. If you are using a stock kernel,
it should be compiled for you. Try "modprobe usbserial".
-Ian
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 18:57 -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> Sounds plausible.
>
> Could someone tell me where to get the USB serial driver?
>
> I did some apt-cache searching and couldn't find anything.
>
> I am not averse to compiling something from source. Just tell me
> where to download it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jason
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:17:41 -0800, Ian Greenhoe <[REMOVED]> wrote:
> > This is strictly a guess (since, as much as I'd like one, I don't have
> > an USB GPS), but it sounds to me like you might need the USB serial
> > driver to run this under 2.4.
> >
> > -Ian
> >
> > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:24 -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> > > I have recently purchased a GPS that I hoped would be portable and easy to use.
> > >
> > > The Garmin GPS-18 is about the size of a 6' tape measure.
> > >
> > > It is USB and gets its power from USB.
> > >
> > > However, I cannot get gpsd to talk to it. Because of that, the other
> > > programs that work with the GPS (xgps, gpsman, gpsdrive) can't find it
> > > either.
> > >
> > > Maybe I am not configuring something correclty.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to set this up so it will work?
> > >
> > > lsusb show:
> > > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 091e:0003 Garmin International GPSmap 60C
> > >
> > > But apparently I don't know how to configure gpsd to look at it.
> > >
> > > dpkg-reconfigure gpsd tell me to use something like /dev/ttyUSB0.
> > > I've tried that and I've tried /dev/ttyUSB1.
> > >
> > > No joy.
> > >
> > > I've seen some tools on sourceforge (garmin_gps), but they require a 2.6 kernel.
> > > I've got: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Wed Dec 1 19:43:08 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > -Jason
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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