[OpenWrt-Devel] How to make a usb GPS work

2008-05-29 Thread Massimiliano Marcon
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

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] How to make a usb GPS work

2008-05-29 Thread Geoff Levand
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

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] How to make a usb GPS work

2008-05-29 Thread Mark Kelly
You do not need any garmin drivers, as long as the device is set to standard NEMA output, you can install picocom and see the stream. #picocom -b4800 /dev/tts/0 If it's stuck in binary mode you want see any useful info. sirfmon is in gpsd utilities and will switch the device back to NMEA mode

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] How to make a usb GPS work

2008-05-29 Thread Massimiliano Marcon
The device is attached as /dev/usb/tts/0 (after the installation of kmod-usb-serial and kmod-usb-serial-pl2303, before the installation it wasn't attacched to any device in the /dev filesystem). If I use microcom (I don't have picocom packaged for whiterussian) and I set the speed to 4800 baud I