USB GPS by DeLorme

[Aaron Grewell]

Sounds like either the vendor or one of the kernel authors classified this as 
a HID device, which AFAIK pretty much precludes accessing it serially.  Dumb, 
since the other models are all serial.  Perhaps an adaptor?

On Tuesday 20 January 2004 17:57, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 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...