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Hello Rudi,

the GNS 5860 GPS runs indeed with Linux. Important is not the GPS chipset, but the serial bridge.

In this case you are looking for this one:

Silicon Labs CP210x RS232 Serial

So:

* Check if your Linux has the usb-driver under

lib/modules/kernel/driver/usb/serial/cp210x.ko

* If not get the newest VCP Driver (cp210x sources), kernel development rpm's and compile it it.

* You should see the new device after plugging it in with lsmod, /sys/bus/usb/devices, /sys/bus/usb/drivers.

* dmesg should show:

[13840.820048] usb 5-2: new full speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[13840.973999] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=ea60
[13840.974030] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[13840.974037] usb 5-2: Product: CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller
[13840.974043] usb 5-2: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs
[13840.974047] usb 5-2: SerialNumber: 0001
[13841.766608] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[13841.766738] USB Serial support registered for generic
[13841.766831] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[13841.766836] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
[13841.775599] USB Serial support registered for cp210x
[13841.775659] cp210x 5-2:1.0: cp210x converter detected
[13841.877042] usb 5-2: reset full speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[13842.012186] usb 5-2: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[13842.012223] usbcore: registered new interface driver cp210x
[13842.012228] cp210x: v0.09:Silicon Labs CP210x RS232 serial adaptor driver
[13846.655884] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on tmds encoder (output 1)

Hvdwolf, I think Rudi rather quoted an e-mail coming from support ;-)