Re: Garmin GPS on USB port
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:57:45PM -0400, Bernard wrote:
> On 8/29/07, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:16:14PM -0400, Bernard wrote:
> > >
> > > problem. Eventually, I will have to plug my GPS on a laptop with
> > > USB port only so I have to find a solution. According to a few
> > > things read on the web I have to load the garmin_gps module. I
> > > did it with succes but the documentation found said to use
> > > /dev/ttyUSB? which device I don't have. Maybe I still have a few
> > > things to understand about the USB devices and udev!
> > Your documentation may not have taken udev into account. Assuming
> > that you're using standard Etch, run tail -f /var/log/syslog and
> > then plug in the gps and see if a message appears that tells you
> > what device it connects to. I've never hooked my GPS up to the
> > computer. However, for comparison, my Palm comes up as something
> > like /dev/pilot.
>
> Ok, here is what I got from syslog:
>
> Aug 29 21:53:15 zherc kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3 Aug
> 29 21:53:28 zherc kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using
> uhci_hcd and address 4 Aug 29 21:53:28 zherc kernel: usb 1-2:
> configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>
> Do you seen something useful from this?
>
There were no further messages?
Does the Debian gpsman or gpsd package documents have anything to suggest?
I note that many of the packages found with aptitude search ~dgarmin
mention attaching a GPS via serial port however gpsd says serial or USB.
Perhaps the documentation in that package will give you some pointers.
Doug.
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