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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        "Joey Mingrone" <joey@mingrone.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: garmin forerunner 305
Message-ID:  <20080904202402.0c245ed2@tau.draftnet>
In-Reply-To: <f5b896260809040751ka9d42e8nfba3ec0d49305c58@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f5b896260809040751ka9d42e8nfba3ec0d49305c58@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300
"Joey Mingrone" <joey@mingrone.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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: <vendor 0x091e product 0x0003,
> 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.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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