Re: new USB serial device: Garmin USB ANT stick

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On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 08:39:33AM +0000, Henning Knut Skoglund wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 09:32:00AM -0700, Scott Alfter wrote:
> > > I have a Garmin USB ANT stick that shows up in lsusb as the following:
> > > 
> > > Bus 009 Device 002: ID 0fcf:1008 Dynastream Innovations, Inc. Mini stick 
> Suunto
> > > 
> > > It's a wireless serial device that talks to Garmin's GPS watches so you 
> can
> > > transfer data into and out of the watch.  I can get it working with the
> > > following command:
> > > 
> > > modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0fcf product=0x100
> > > 
> > > dmesg spits out this information:
> > > 
> > > [751657.368773] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
> > > [751657.368794] usbcore: registered new interface driver 
> usbserial_generic
> > > [751657.368803] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
> > > [751657.368823] usbserial_generic 9-1:1.0: The "generic" usb-serial 
> driver is
> > > only for testing and one-off prototypes.
> > > [751657.368825] usbserial_generic 9-1:1.0: Tell
> > linux-usb@... to
> > > add your device to a proper driver.
> > > [751657.368826] usbserial_generic 9-1:1.0: generic converter detected
> > > [751657.370262] usb 9-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> > > 
> > > The module won't load without the vendor and product parameters, which 
> also
> > > means it won't auto-load.  Is there more information you need to add 
> this
> > > device to the kernel so it will auto-load?
> > 
> > There is a new driver in the 3.11-rc3 kernel release for this device,
> > called "suunto".  It will be in the final 3.11 release in a few weeks,
> > so no need to do anything special, when you upgrade to that release, it
> > will auto-load properly.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > 
> > greg k-h
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> 
> In my case for a chrome web app on ubuntu 13.10/linux 3.11.0-15-generic
>  it seems like the suunto module somehow takes over/interferes with the usb 
> interface and its impossible to claim the interface via 
> chrome.usb.claimInterface API that interfaces with libusb. To disable the 
> module I added 'blacklist suunto' to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and 
> rebooted.

Is there not a chrome.usb. function that allows you to disconnect the
device from the driver the operating system attached to it?  If not, I
suggest submitting a bug/patch to chrome, as there's nothing we can do
here about it, sorry.

greg k-h
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