I'm _trying_ to use my Garmin Etrex Venture with SUSE 10.1, but I bought a usb-serial cable from the shack and I haven't yet been able to figure out what I need to do to get that working. So far, I've tried booting up with the usb-serial attached and the gps powered on and ready to navigate, hoping SUSE would detect it and load the appropriate modules. No luck. I looked at usbview but it didn't show any devices. An error appears saying it can't open /proc/bus/usb/devices and to verify that usb is compiled into my kernel and that usb modules are loaded and that the usbdevfs is mounted. I was hoping that this would all be done already, but I guess I'll have to verify everything before I know for sure. I did try modprobe usbserial, to no apparant avail. I'm trying to get my gps working with gpsdrive, btw, and later with kismet and maybe some astronomy software. I haven't had much luck finding any helpful guides through google (regarding my specific usb-serial cable as pertains to configuration in Linux) so I'd appreciate any help if there are any gurus in this area on list. Also, the cable works fine under winbloze, to which RS provided me a nice driver cd. I'm _trying_ to use my Garmin Etrex Venture with SUSE 10.1, but I bought a usb-serial cable from the shack and I haven't yet been able to figure out what I need to do to get that working. So far, I've tried booting up with the usb-serial attached and the gps powered on and ready to navigate, hoping SUSE would detect it and load the appropriate modules. No luck. I looked at usbview but it didn't show any devices. An error appears saying it can't open /proc/bus/usb/devices and to verify that usb is compiled into my kernel and that usb modules are loaded and that the usbdevfs is mounted. I was hoping that this would all be done already, but I guess I'll have to verify everything before I know for sure. I did try modprobe usbserial, to no apparant avail. I'm trying to get my gps working with gpsdrive, btw, and later with kismet and maybe some astronomy software. I haven't had much luck finding any helpful guides through google (regarding my specific usb-serial cable as pertains to configuration in Linux) so I'd appreciate any help if there are any gurus in this area on list. Also, the cable works fine under winbloze, to which RS provided me a nice driver cd. ps- didn't know that reply didn't post to list. Seems unconventional and annoying, but whatever. This is a good list anyway. -----Original Message----- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:rschulz@sonic.net] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:55 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Garmin GPS Kernel Module Stability Problems? Hi, I recently bought a Garmin GPS device (Forerunner 301) and since then I've had two system crashes. I'm not actually accessing the device from Linux, but rather from Windows software running under Windows XP Pro via VMware. But every time I attach the device, the garmin_gps kernel module is apparently loaded automatically and the device claimed by it. When I connect it to VMware, it asks me to confirm deactivating Linux access to the device before allowing Windows to see it. But in both cases, the device was not even attached to the system at the time of the crash, but had been and Windows / VMware was still running after accessing the device and downloading its track logs. I cannot find any log file entries in /var/log that seem to pertain to the crash, just the reboot activities afterward. The first time the crash happened, I was not around. Today it happened and I was in the same room as the computer, though not using it. One of the CD trays happened to be out and when it retracted it caught my attention. It seems the system may have reset itself, as if I'd pressed the hardware reset button on the front panel. Until these past few days, this system has been extremely reliable and stable, so something appears to have happened, and the addition of this new hardware coincides with the onset of the symptoms. I'm running under SuSE 10.0 with the latest kernel (2.6.13-15.10-smp) on a Pentium 4-based Intel motherboard system. So I'm wondering if anyone else is using a device handled by the "garmin_gps" kernel module and if so, have they encountered any stability problems related to it? Thanks. Randall Schulz -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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