[Gpsbabel-misc] trouble downloading data from garmin etrex venture serial version
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From: John L. <lip...@gm...> - 2014-07-08 16:47:21
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I'm using sabayon linux x86_64 with gpsbabel 1.4.4. My gps is an older garmin etrex venture serial (not usb). I have the serial data format set to garmin in the gps settings. I've tried with and without the garmin_gps kernel module. With the module, I get the following in dmesg: [ 4093.157294] usbcore: registered new interface driver garmin_gps [ 4093.157410] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for Garmin GPS usb/tty [ 4113.840127] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd [ 4114.007069] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0557, idProduct=2008 [ 4114.007078] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 4114.007097] usb 2-2: Product: USB-Serial Controller D [ 4114.007103] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc. [ 4114.009473] pl2303 2-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected [ 4114.021681] usb 2-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 As you can see I am also using a serial to usb converter for which I have built the driver into the kernel: $ zgrep 2303 /proc/config.gz CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_PL2303=y [ 1.769551] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303 [ 1.771672] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303 I've read the info regarding troubles garmin gps's at: http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html But after looking at that page again maybe that info is only relevant to usb units. The output I'm seeing with and without garmin_gps: $ sudo gpsbabel -D9 -w -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F waypoints.wpt.gpx Password: GPSBabel Version: 1.4.4 Tx Data:10 fe 00 02 10 03 : ...(PRDREQ ) [ERROR] GPS_Packet_Read: Timeout. No data received. GARMIN:Can't init /dev/ttyUSB0 I've also tried it as a normal user and that user is in the uucp group. $ ls /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 2014-07-08 10:37 /dev/ttyUSB0 It looks like I once had this working in a linux OS using gpsbabel in June of 2011 (based on memory and a wiki entry), but what distro and what version of gpsbabel I cannot recall. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John |