Tim Chick wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 03:30, David L. Johnson wrote: >> Da_Blitz wrote: >>> gadget serial means the Z is acting as a serial port when plugged >>> into the PC, what you want to load is "usbserial" which is the >>> generic usb serial modules for most hardware >>> >> But I can't send it to a device that ain't there, and /dev/ttyusb0, >> etc., aren't there. Sending it to /dev/ttyS0 creates the device >> file, but does not send anything to the Garmin. >> >> Why is the device not being created? >> > You're really close! Normally you do not need to insmod any USB device > drivers (ie usbserial) as they will be automatically loaded by looking > at the USB ids. > > The device is not being created as the usbserial driver does not support > the usb id of your garmin gps. What you need is the module > garmin_gps.ko It should live in the same directory as usbserial.ko > > I'm not sure why this is not being loaded automatically, as it looks > like it is built in the kernel config. I guess either it has not been > copied across, or you need to try to insmod it manually ( don't know > why though), or you have an older kernel config. > > This will create the /dev/ttyUSB0 device.
Finally it worked. I did not have the garmin kernel module installed. Now it seems to be all better. I had to insmod the module directly, giving the full path, but maybe that was due to the fact that I had just installed the module and the kernel didn't know where to look. But, this is a big deal success story, since that makes this combination usable on my trip. Thanks a bunch. -- David L. Johnson Enron's slogan: Respect, Communication, Integrity, and Excellence. _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
