The problem seems to be located in the garmin_gps module.
If I connect a SIRF GPS everything works.

If I connect a brand new Garmin GPS 18 I get the follwoing messages (started gpsd -n -N -D 5 /dev/ttyUSB0):
gpsd: launching (Version 2.34)
gpsd: listening on port gpsd
gpsd: shmat(0,0,0) succeeded
gpsd: shmat(0,0,0) succeeded
gpsd: shmat(0,0,0) succeeded
gpsd: shmat(0,0,0) succeeded
gpsd: running with effective group ID 0
gpsd: running with effective user ID 0
gpsd: opening GPS data source at ‘/dev/ttyUSB0′
gpsd: speed 9600, 8N1
gpsd: Can’t open /proc/bus/usb/devices
gpsd: no probe matched…
gpsd: gpsd_activate(1): opened GPS (5)

My current kernel is the taken from SuSE (no recompilation):
Linux swe2-sp 2.6.16.27-0.6-smp #1 SMP Wed Dec 13 09:34:50 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I hope that helps to locate the error.

Ulrich

I have just updated the SuSE 10.1 kernel to 2.6.16.27-0.6-smp and I do now have the problem that the /proc/bus/usb/devices directory is missing. From some websearch I have found the bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210899 which sounds to me that this might be no longer supported.

Due to the /proc/bus/usb/devices problem gpsd is no longer working. Can you confirm this and can you also compile a new version which runs with the most up to date SuSE 10.1?

Thanks
Ulrich