[Nottingham] HI-204S GPS USB hardware

Tom Bird tom at marmot.org.uk
Thu May 20 15:48:00 BST 2004


On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:24, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> I have bought a GPS receiver. It works ok under Windows. I am having
> difficulty getting it to work under Linux, even though I know it does...
> 
> It's a HI-204s model
> I am running:
> Fedora Core 1
> Custom kernel 2.6.6
> 
> Basically, I have never used any usb hardware under Linux before, so I am
> probably missing something from the kernel. I have tried getting the
> software to talk to /dev/ttyUSBx but it fails for each of them. Where
> should I look, and what basic stuff do I need to know? :)
> 
> I'm running the navigation software as user root. It's not a permissions
> issue with the device, it says "No Such Device"...

Some log lines would be helpful, e.g

usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: USB OV511 video device found
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: model: Lifeview RoboCam
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Sensor is an OV7610
drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Device at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1 registered to
minor 2

(this is what happens when I plug in my USB webcam)

AIUI, ttyUSB[x] is for USB devices that are trying to be serial port
devices, you may well be looking in the wrong place.  I'm not familiar
with your GPS unit, however, and it could well be a simple USB-serial
thing.

-- 
tom

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