[gpsd-users] Garmin Oregon 400 in spanner mode with gpsd 3.5-1

[Miroslav Pragl]

Hi,
I can't make Garmin Oregn work with gpsd (Fedora 17, same behavior on 32
and/or 64 bit).

I set up GPS to spanner mode, plug it into computer, don't let it switch to
USB mass storage. Udev loads garmin_gps module, this creates ttyUSB1 and
gpsd starts listening on it. So far so good.

The problem is that only few bytes are received from GPS and only
immediately after it's plugged in. After that GPS stops sending data until
replugged - again few bytes (in rare examples it's one or more whole
packets) and GPS gets dumb. I got list of satellites few times, never
locked.

By the way I plugged old good eTrex Legend in NMEA mode and gpsd worked like
charm.

I'll try to compile current gpsd tonight and try it. Also, anther culprit
might be NetworkManager / modemmanager, but I tried gpsd in init 3 with same
results.

Any usable kicks?

Thanks

Miroslav