[SLE] Garmin GPS Kernel Module Stability Problems?
I have a proprietary cable from garmin that is male serial on one end and the other end jacks into the weird socket on top of my handheld gps. So I bought a serial->usb cable from RS. It came with a driver for winbloze and it works fine with netstumbler. I'm having problems getting SUSE to see it though. I thought about buying a new cable since I read some posts on eham.com about ham operators having trouble with the RS usb->serial cable. But I don't want to give up on this cable yet, because I spent ~$40 on it and I think some people have been successful getting it to work in Linux. I know, I should have done my research first and found a converter that was known-good for Linux, but I'm an impatient padawan and have much to learn. And I'd rather figure this one out since I'll learn the inner-workings of SUSE/Linux that much better in the process. I've got plenty of time, but if anyone can chime in and help it would be much appreciated. Steve On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 02:26 -0700, Wagner, Steven G wrote:
my garmin etrex venture has an interface menu where you can select a variety of formats. It includes two Garmin formats, 3 or 4 NMEA formats and something else.
It has a USB port? Or a serial port? If it is a serial port, I have used AETN serial->USB cables on Linux. SUSE 9.3 and 10.0 just made them work. I have not tried 10.1 yet.
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Oberholtzer [mailto:roger@opq.se] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 12:50 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Garmin GPS Kernel Module Stability Problems?
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 21:54 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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.
What does this kernel module do? Isn't the garmin connected via a serial port? I access Trimble GPS devices via the standard serial port driver. But then I am after NMEA message strings. IIRC, Garmin uses its own format.
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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 03:13 -0700, Wagner, Steven G wrote:
I have a proprietary cable from garmin that is male serial on one end and the other end jacks into the weird socket on top of my handheld gps. So I bought a serial->usb cable from RS. It came with a driver for winbloze and it works fine with netstumbler. I'm having problems getting SUSE to see it though.
I thought about buying a new cable since I read some posts on eham.com about ham operators having trouble with the RS usb->serial cable. But I don't want to give up on this cable yet, because I spent ~$40 on it and I think some people have been successful getting it to work in Linux.
I know, I should have done my research first and found a converter that was known-good for Linux, but I'm an impatient padawan and have much to learn. And I'd rather figure this one out since I'll learn the inner-workings of SUSE/Linux that much better in the process. I've got plenty of time, but if anyone can chime in and help it would be much appreciated.
When you plug in the cable to your computer's USB port, what is printed in /var/log/messages? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- 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
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