From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 15:17:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13266106564A for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:17:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucec@muon.cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [66.246.138.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C928FC0A for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:17:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucec@muon.cran.org.uk) Received: by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0F4BB19268; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:58:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:58:08 -0500 From: Bruce Cran To: Bob McConnell Message-ID: <20081104145807.GA12700@muon.cran.org.uk> References: <20081103192749.2f35701b@tau.draftnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Bruce Cran , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: garmin forerunner 305 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:17:08 -0000 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:28:05AM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: > On Behalf Of Bruce Cran > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100 > > Bruce Cran wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300 > >> "Joey Mingrone" wrote: > >> > >> > Has anyone had any success collecting data from a Garmin Forerunner > >> > 305? > >> > > >> > When I connect the device I see the kernel messages: > >> > Sep 4 11:39:22 jrm root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x091e product > >> > 0x0003 bus uhub1 > >> > Sep 4 11:39:22 jrm kernel: ugen0: >> > class 255/255, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2> on uhub1 > >> > > >> > The documentation for the port astro/GPSMan seems to indicate it > >> > supports this model, but I haven't had any luck. > >> > > >> > % uname -a > >> > FreeBSD xxx.xxx 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Thu Jun > 12 > >> > 18:47:50 ADT 2008 root@xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx i386 > >> > >> Unfortunately Garmin use their own protocol for communicating between > >> the GPS and the PC. Under Linux it's supported by the garmin_gps > >> driver but there's no equivalent for FreeBSD yet. > >> > > > > Sorry, it turns out that's wrong: the gpsbabel developers recommend > not > > using garmin_gps because apparently it often doesn't work. Instead > > they recommend using gpsbabel's 'garmin' input/output format. It > > interfaces to the device using libusb - which, fortunately for us runs > > on FreeBSD! I've just successfully read back GPS data into a GPX file > > using gpsbabel on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT and the 'usb2' usb stack. > > > > I don't know if it'll work with the usb stack that's in shipping > > version of FreeBSD though, and even with the new stack I had to make a > > change to libgpsusb.c in gpsbabel to get it working. > > The best way to help fix these problems are: > > A) Submit a patch for the changes you made. > > B) Contact the maintainers and provide them with all of the details, > what you found, what didn't work, what you modified and the final > results. If you have traces or data captures, they may want to see them. > They can't fix problems they don't understand. If they don't have access > to that hardware, or something similar, they might even ask you to do > some experiments for them to extend their knowledge. All of that will > help them improve the quality of future releases. > It looks like it may be a bug in libusb20 or the usb2 stack. I've sent an email to Hans and freebsd-usb@ and will see what they think. I very much suspect it's not a bug in gpsbabel itself because USB_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_MASK must exist for a reason, and removing the masking was just a hack to get things working just now. -- Bruce Cran