USB GPS by DeLorme

[Matthew Carpenter]

gpsdrive supports the DeLorme Earthmate, but has only confirmed it to work with the Serial version.  I'm attempting to provide a Serial interface to the unit.  I know the bit about watching /var/log/messages but was wondering if there was something in /proc which might be a more precise mechanism.  I wondered if someone out there who knows more about USB in linux than I do might answer.  I wondered if perhaps /dev/usb/??? or /dev/ttyUSB?? might be the default...  As it is the Earthmate shows up as a "hid" device and appears to be assigned to /dev/usb/hiddev0 but I've been thus far unable to access it there...


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:42:24 -0500
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 January 2004 14:11, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > How do I tell how to access a new USB device?
> >
> > I'm looking through Kinfocenter and wondering why they don't include that
> > information in the USB section (like, device to access it.. a duh!) And I
> > got to wondering how they'd implement that.  Does anyone have a superior
> > understanding of USB and wish to take a stab at determining what device to
> > access a USB device through?  For this example, use 2.4.21, or SuSE 9.0pro.
> >
> > The challenge is set.  Thanks
> > Matt
> >
> > ps.  The need is to access a USB GPS from DeLorme, called the Earthmate.
> 
> Can I ask what you are going to use for software to deal with the Earthmate?
> 
> 
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