Comments on: usb_set_configuration failed http://www.marengo-ltd.com/blog/?p=51 Open Source Projects and Shiny, Jangly Gadgets Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:30:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Martyn http://www.marengo-ltd.com/blog/?p=51&cpage=1#comment-25017 Martyn Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:07:42 +0000 http://www.marengo-ltd.com/blog/?p=51#comment-25017 Hi Robert, thanks for the post. The error message you quote is what I posted, isn't it? Apart from the "For more information..." part, which I omitted. I'd been using /dev/ttyUSB0 before, but on the current machine I was testing it on, using that was causing only partial transfer of the data, resulting in truncated data sets on the GPS device. I've seen other people mention that in the past as well. Finally, a big thanks to you and your team from all of us who use GPSBabel. Good work! Hi Robert, thanks for the post. The error message you quote is what I posted, isn’t it? Apart from the “For more information…” part, which I omitted.

I’d been using /dev/ttyUSB0 before, but on the current machine I was testing it on, using that was causing only partial transfer of the data, resulting in truncated data sets on the GPS device. I’ve seen other people mention that in the past as well.

Finally, a big thanks to you and your team from all of us who use GPSBabel. Good work!

]]> By: Robert Lipe http://www.marengo-ltd.com/blog/?p=51&cpage=1#comment-25012 Robert Lipe Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:28:28 +0000 http://www.marengo-ltd.com/blog/?p=51#comment-25012 Hi, Google Alert tipped me off to this posting. A few things caught my eye. You're running an old version of GPSBabel. In current versions, the text of that error is: fatal("usb_set_configuration failed, probably because kernel driver '%s'\n is blocking our access to the USB device.\n" "For more information see http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html \n", drvnm); If you want to use the kernel module (and it doesn't work correctly for a large number of people) use /dev/ttyUSBwhatever instead of usb: Hi, Google Alert tipped me off to this posting. A few things caught my eye.

You’re running an old version of GPSBabel. In current versions, the text of that error is:

fatal(“usb_set_configuration failed, probably because kernel driver ‘%s’\n is blocking our access to the USB device.\n”
“For more information see http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html \n”, drvnm);

If you want to use the kernel module (and it doesn’t work correctly for a large number of people) use /dev/ttyUSBwhatever instead of usb:

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