I am reviving this thread, which dealt with an issue getting my
ShipModul MiniPlex to work. We had managed to solve this, but that was using Navigatrix 0.5 (Sept 2013). However, I have been trying to set up Navigatrix 0.5 (August 2014), which seems to be based on a newer kernel.
In doing so, my
Shipmodul MiniPlex was once again broken. Applying fixes discussed earlier in the thread did not work this time. In fact, I was set further back than ever before, because
/dev/ttyUSBx was never created. I traced this to the
ftdi_sio driver not being loaded :
lsmod | grep ftdi returned nothing.
dmesg further instructed me that :
Code:
[ 406.535731] usb 2-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd
[ 406.698006] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=fd49
[ 406.698011] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 406.698014] usb 2-1: Product: ShipModul MiniPlex-2USB
[ 406.698016] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: CustomWare
[ 406.698018] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 21000900
[...]
[ 1007.725956] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[ 1007.726445] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 1007.726914] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 1007.727991] ftdi_sio: unknown parameter 'vendor' ignored
[ 1007.727993] ftdi_sio: unknown parameter 'product' ignored
[ 1007.728549] usbcore: registered new interface driver ftdi_sio
[ 1007.729043] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for FTDI USB Serial Device
Thanks to several pages, including
http://www.leniwiec.org/en/2014/06/25/ubuntu-14-04lts-how-to-pass-id-vendor-and-id-product-to-ftdi_sio-driver/ which put me on the right track, I found a working solution.
My installation process for the
Shipmodul Miniplex has been fairly modified.
I include it hereunder for others which might have the same issue :
Create
/etc/modprobe.d/usbserial.conf with content
Code:
insmod ftdi_sio
Include the following content in
/etc/rc.local contentCode:
modprobe ftdi_sio
chmod 775 /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/ftdi_sio/new_id
sudo echo 0403 fd49 > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/ftdi_sio/new_id
Note that here I had to include a chmod permission change, since for some reason I was getting a
Permission denied error that others do not seem to get.
Create
/etc/udev/rules.d/98-gps.rules with content
Code:
SUBSYSTEM=="tty", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="fd49", ACTION=="add", SYMLINK+="miniplex", RUN+="/bin/stty -F /dev/miniplex 57600", RUN+="/lib/udev/gpsd.hotplug"
GPSD can now find the Miniplex automatically, and alternatively you can use it with the unvarying name
/dev/miniplex .
