[ltp] Gpsd & friends

[Andreas Loeffler]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:08 -0400, bhaskins@chartermi.net wrote:
> =
> > 
> > > I use the Earthmate LT-20 and it is part of my boats
> > > navigation system so this is a big item for me.
> > > None of these give anything like error messages, they
> > > just don't do anything.
> > 
> > When you plug in the USB plug, running 'dmesg' in a terminal should show
> > you a bunch of messages about a new USB device and what /dev/ttyUSBx
> > number it got (or, alternatively, a bunch of error messages).
> > 
> > Do other USB devices work for you?
> > 
> > (USB on old T42 broke down in an interesting way: USB1 devices work
> > normally, but USB2 devices fail.  I think it's a hardware failure,
> > although I'm not quite sure how it can be.)
> > 
> > Marius Gedminas
> This is in no way a hardware (or) USP problem.
> I have more than one (too many) A31s and I can swap the hard drive back
> and forth with the same results as above i.e. the earlier versions work and
> the later ones don't.
> Something has changed in the software and I have no idea what it is.
> Incidentally, USB1 works fine in all of these machines and USB2 works
> well also when using a pcmcia adapter

maybe udev related ?
i recently had the problem with a garmin forerunner after upgraded to
newer kernel where the device could not be accessed anymore.
udev upgrade helped ... two things seemed to cause the problem 
SYSFS{] vs. ATTRS{} and wrong permissions for the generated device.

... just a thought 

andreas