-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 David L. Johnson wrote: > 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. >
if you do a modprobe then you dont have to worry about the full path or the .ko at the end glad it worked. however with the modual thing was it that the OS didnt know where the module was, or didnt know which module to load? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGgdHoWXWdE2sO05wRCghlAJ97iU6h2pwEvEpwSAuSOWkKD5T7jgCg7bZ8 8rMVob5ldfPDiSlQWZcoE+g= =gt8o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
