Re: Garmin GPS on USB port
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:26:12AM +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 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.
>
Depending on the package he may have to modprobe garmin_gps to get
/dev/ttyUSB0
Other programs can access directly the gps through libusb (gpsbabel for
instance).
http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html
Philippe
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