garmin forerunner 305

[Bruce Cran]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300
"Joey Mingrone" <joey at mingrone.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone had any success collecting data from a Garmin Forerunner
> 305?
> 
> When I connect the device I see the kernel messages:
> Sep  4 11:39:22 jrm root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x091e product
> 0x0003 bus uhub1
> Sep  4 11:39:22 jrm kernel: ugen0: <vendor 0x091e product 0x0003,
> class 255/255, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2> on uhub1
> 
> The documentation for the port astro/GPSMan seems to indicate it
> supports this model, but I haven't had any luck.
> 
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD xxx.xxx 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Thu Jun 12
> 18:47:50 ADT 2008     root at xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx  i386

Unfortunately Garmin use their own protocol for communicating between
the GPS and the PC.  Under Linux it's supported by the garmin_gps
driver but there's no equivalent for FreeBSD yet.

-- 
Bruce Cran