[hardy] no device node created for garmin gps

[Corey Burger]

Binary package hint: linux-generic

Plug in my garmin GPSmap 76CS. Under previous versions of Ubuntu, it would create a device node. Now dmesg gives me this:

[ 136.089033] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 141.846367] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 141.885650] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

and using gpsbabel gives me:

corey@corey-laptop:~$ gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F Mar1308.gpx
[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

[Phaedrus (ubuntu-lotje)]

This seems to be by design as a result of this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/module-init-tools/+bug/114565/comments/3

To avoid this you can load the module manually (sudo modprobe garmin_gps) or remove the blacklisting by editing /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Look for:

# most apps now use garmin usb driver directly (Ubuntu: #114565)
blacklist garmin_gps

Change the second line to
#blacklist garmin_gps

[mcmuller (gregor-emtea)]

Better to leave the garmin_gps blacklisted and use
 gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb:

instead. The driver was blacklisted, because most newer programs use the usb of garmins GPS directly (gpsbabel, qlandkarte)

Greetings,
Gregor

[gcordoba (glgcg)]

I have similar problem:
What I need is to read a .gdb file from the hard disk. The same error appear.
How can I read the file? gpsbabel always attempts to read directly for the garmin device.

Thanks
Gustavo

[Guillermo Lengemann (omerta)]

try add user to group dialout.

[gcordoba (glgcg)]

Thanks Guillermo.
The user (myself) are already added to the dialout group. So, please, do you have any other advice?

[gcordoba (glgcg)]

This seems to work:

$ gpsbabel -i gdb -f your_file.gdb -o kml -F test.kml