Da_Blitz wrote:

>> 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

Well, modprobe garmin_gps did not work.  Should it have been a - rather 
than a _?
> 
> 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?

It did not auto-load anything when I plugged it in, and as I said 
modprobe garmin_gps did not work.  But insmod with the full path and 
full filname did.  I will try it later on after I have re-booted and see 
if it learns the path.

-- 

David L. Johnson

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
                --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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