[Xastir] EEEbuntu and GPSMAN

[Scott Evans]

As EEEubuntu is based on Hardy (8.04) you will need to do the following!

sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0×0000 product=0×0000

Run “dmesg” again and you shall see lines similar like this :

usbserial_generic 1-1:1.0: generic converter detected
usb 1-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic

As you can see, the new serial port device is mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0. You
can instruct Ubuntu to load this module automatically by include the line
: “usbserial vendor=0×0000 product=0×0000″ inside “/etc/modules”
file.




On Tue, August 11, 2009 10:58 pm, William M. Bickley wrote:
> I'm struggling to get XASTIR working with a Garmin  18X USB GPS on
> EEEbuntu,
> and I thought I would try to first get GPSMAN working to confirm GPS
> function.
>
> I start up GPSMAN, but the GPS shows up as offline, and when I check its
> status, I get a "cannot open serial port /dev/ttyUSB0" message.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Bill W2ET
>
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