On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:18:31PM +0000, Gervase Markham wrote: > I asked for a Garmin Legend HCx for Christmas, on the recommendation of > various people in this group, and am now trying to connect it to my > Linux computer to do some real-time mapping. Has anyone got this device > working with gpsd? A bit of Googling and other work doesn't turn up > anything - some say to use the garmin_gps kernel module, others say it's > unreliable (and, in fact, it is blacklisted in my Ubuntu 8.10).
AFAIK you need to use the garmin_gps module for gpsd. It provides the requisite USB‐serial devices, /dev/ttyUSBN. If you use gpsbabel (its own Garmin support is considered to be more reliable[*]) a lot, you might want to keep the module blacklisted and only load it manually when you want to use gpsd (this ignores the blacklist). Otherwise, remove the blacklist. [*] gpsbabel can also use the USB‐serial device provided by garmin_gps Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall
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