On Fri, 13 May 2016, Stephen Furner wrote: > This is the permissions on the files for the USB being used by the Garmin > > stephen@stephen-N150P:/$ lsusb > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ac8:c33f Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Webcam > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0781:5567 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:219c Broadcom Corp. > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 002 Device 004: ID 091e:0003 Garmin International GPS (various models) > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > > stephen@stephen-N150P:/$ ls -l dev/bus/usb/002 > total 0 > crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 128 May 11 13:39 001 > crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 131 May 13 19:03 004 There it is: write permission only for root. Have you tried installing the udev rule recommended on the Ubuntu forum? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html