Re: new USB serial device: Garmin USB ANT stick

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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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