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LonelyStar

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Registered: 2007-12-09

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gpsbabel - usb access rights?

Hi,

I am trying to send and recive data from my garmin gps device using gebabbel (a gpsbabel frontend).
I am getting:

Claim Interface failed: could not claim interface 0: Opration not permitted

It also does not work if I am root, so it is not the access rights, or?

Thanks!
Nathan

Last edited by LonelyStar (2009-09-05 10:14:35)

djszapi

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Re: gpsbabel - usb access rights?

Hello LonelyStar!

How did you try to start this application ? What's the output of lsmod | egrep "Module|garmin" ?

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LonelyStar

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Registered: 2007-12-09

Posts: 123

Re: gpsbabel - usb access rights?

Hello LonelyStar!

How did you try to start this application ? What's the output of lsmod | egrep "Module|garmin" ?

I do

sudo gebabbel

to start it (with root rights)

lsmod | egrep "Module|garmin"
Module                  Size  Used by
garmin_gps             21364  0
usbserial              40208  1 garmin_gps
usbcore               179504  5 garmin_gps,usbserial,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

So the garmin module seems to be loaded, right?

Regards,
Nathan

Rhubarb

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Registered: 2009-08-01

Posts: 33

Re: gpsbabel - usb access rights?

To fix this you need to unload the garmin_gps kernel module first
This can be done by running:

# rmmod garmin_gps

If this works for you aswell, it may be a good idea to blacklist this kernel module from loading up in future too.

It works for me, and I can run gpsbabel on my garmin unit without having to be root

With thanks to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502304 for leading me to the answer

Last edited by Rhubarb (2010-04-13 12:28:45)

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