I have an LT-20 Delorme Earthmate GPS. It may not be the best GPS, but it gets the job done. Getting it to work in Ubuntu was no easy feat.
I had to fix a bug in a cypress module. I followed the instructions from here.
To get the kernel version, I ran:
uname -r
Then, to install the kernel source, I ran:
sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.24
Then, I changed directories into the installation directory and unzipped the source:
cd /usr/src
sudo tar -xvf linux-source-2.6.24.tar.bz2
Then, I copied the two files:
cd linux-source-2.6.24/drivers/usb/serial/
sudo mkdir /usr/src/modules
sudo cp cypress_m8.h cypress_m8.c /usr/src/modules/
Next, I created the make file (note that I have installed gvim. I saw a note saying that they had problems using the gedit text editor):
cd /usr/src/modules
sudo gvim Makefile
And, I pasted these lines into the Makefile:
obj-m := cypress_m8.o
KDIR := /lib/modules/
$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD := $(shell pwd)
default:
$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
Then, I edited cypress_m8.c and commented out line 408. The original instructions have more detail on this. I thought the line number might be different, but it was the same as the original instructions.
When running make (sudo make) I had trouble with “make: Nothing to be done for `default’.” message. I just opened the file and deleted and readded the tab in front of the last line. Then, it ran fine.
Then, I ran the command:
sudo install -m 644 cypress_m8.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.ko
sudo depmod -a
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