I recently bought a i-gotU USB GPS, and whilst hunting around for linux
support discovered this post by you back in 2009:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-usb/2009/3/12/
5148644
>Try the navman driver instead. You can either add the device id to the
> driver and rebuild it, or do this before you plug the device in:
> modprobe navman
> echo -n "0x0df7 0x0900" > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/navman/new_id
>
> and then plug your device in and see if that works.
I can confirm that the navman driver works with the right device IDs on
my i-gotU GT-600, which has the same device IDs. Attached is a patch
adding the IDs.
From: Ross Burton <ross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
static const struct usb_device_id id_table[] = {
{ USB_DEVICE(0x0a99, 0x0001) }, /* Talon Technology device */
+ { USB_DEVICE(0x0df7, 0x0900) }, /* Mobile Action i-gotU */
{ },
};
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(usb, id_table);