Massimiliano Marcon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to make a usb GPS (Garmin18) work with a linksys wrtsl54gs.
> I'm running on it whiterussian 0.9. I installed the packages
> kmod-usb-serial and kmod-usb-serial-pl2303, now as soon as I connect it
> to the usb port I see it as /dev/usb/tts/0, and dmesg says:
> usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
> usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for
> devfs)
> 
> So in theory I should be able to invoke a cat /dev/usb/tts/0 and see
> something, instead I don't see anything. If i run gpsd, the daemon which
> get data from a gps device I don't get any information as well.
> 
> Any idea about this issue?

This is not specific to OpenWRT.  You need to use the garmin driver
garmin_gps.  It emulates a serial device.  Look for it using the
lsmod command.

You need to send the device a command before it will send back data, so
a cat will not work.

-Geoff

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