Hi, Mark Kelly wrote: > You do not need any garmin drivers, as long as the device is set to > standard NEMA output, you can install picocom and see the stream. > > #picocom -b4800 /dev/tts/0 > > If it's stuck in binary mode you want see any useful info. > > sirfmon is in gpsd utilities and will switch the device back to NMEA > mode so you can see the stream, but sirfmon is not in the gpsd package > for openwrt, you will need to interface with your pc to put it in NMEA mode. > > > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 13:54 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: >> Massimiliano Marcon wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm trying to make a usb GPS (Garmin18) work with a linksys wrtsl54gs. >> > I'm running on it whiterussian 0.9. I installed the packages >> > kmod-usb-serial and kmod-usb-serial-pl2303, now as soon as I connect it >> > to the usb port I see it as /dev/usb/tts/0, and dmesg says: >> > usbserial.c: Generic converter detected >> > usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for >> > devfs) >> > >> > So in theory I should be able to invoke a cat /dev/usb/tts/0 and see >> > something, instead I don't see anything. If i run gpsd, the daemon which >> > get data from a gps device I don't get any information as well. >> > >> > Any idea about this issue? >> >> This is not specific to OpenWRT. You need to use the garmin driver >> garmin_gps. It emulates a serial device. Look for it using the >> lsmod command. >> >> You need to send the device a command before it will send back data, so >> a cat will not work.
Not sure if it is the same device, but I saw this on the garmin site: GPS 18 USB — has A-style USB connector, compatible with USB 2.0 and 1.1 full-speed hosts; can output data in Garmin proprietary format only. https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=158&pID=223 -Geoff _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
