Hi Giovanni, On Thu, 07. Oct 2010 at 20:08:52 +0100, Giovanni Manghi wrote: > it seems that with the garmin_gps kernel module loaded the connection > via gpsbabel does not work anymore (at least on Ubuntu), but gps tools > work using /dev/ttyUSB0! this should be documented.
Not really. The gps tools uses gpsbabel. gpsbabel can access the garmin directly via usb w/o a special kernel driver. The garmin_gps module provides a /dev/ttyUSBn device for the garmin. At the same time is blocks direct usb accesses to the GPS. So when the module is loaded, gpsbabel cannot be used with "-f usb:" anymore. However gps tools/gpsbabel apparently can use the /dev/ttyUSBn device to access the gps. I just downloaded waypoints, routes and tracks from my hcx, which garmin_gps (of kernel 2.6.34.1) was loaded. Although [1] claims that this is "depressingly uncommon". Still that probably won't work while gpsd is running. Jürgen [1] http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
