[Ilugc] Re: Problems with gps interface with ubuntu

  • From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
  • Date: Tue Sep 23 10:19:38 2008

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 9:13:00 pm Bharath Kumar wrote:

bharath79in@arvsmanian:~$ gpsbabel -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o kml -F
gpsfile.kml
[ERROR] XSERIAL: Cannot open serial port '/dev/ttyUSB0': No such file or
directory
[ERROR] Cannot open serial port '/dev/ttyUSB0'
GARMIN:Can't init /dev/ttyUSB0

as root, type 'tail -f /var/log/messages'
and then plug in the device to see what name it gets - it may not 
be /dev/ttyUSB0

-- 
regards
KG
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