Navilink usbserial connection problems - Possibly fixed

[Guest]

Hello,

I have an old Navilink BGT-11 hand held GPS receiver. I have used it a bit for the OpenStreetMap mapping project. I want to use gpsbabel.

I last used it a year or so ago.

Now, I am having great trouble connecting my KUbuntu system to it.

I understand that I will need to
modprobe usbserial
and that then plugging and unplugging the device and cable should cause messages to appear in
/var/log/syslog

This is not happening. Nothing appears in syslog.

Can anyone suggest anything I can try.

I have just upgraded to
3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Claypipe

[Guest]

Re: Navilink usbserial connection problems - Possibly fixed

I think that I may have the solution.

As root, I

modprobe usbserial
modprobe pl2303

After this gpsbabel seems to work. I have installed gpsbabel and gpsbabel-gui, and then running gpsbabelfe seems to communicate sucessfuly.

Can you tell me how to get these modules installed automatically.

Ta