Their latest album is running in an endless loop in my music player

Funny OSM Map (c) OpenStreetMaps

Sometimes OpenStreetMaps can be quite funny.

Update: There it is. The new release is named “Change”. Where that may come from …

• Blacklist garmin_gps. Most tools (gpsbabel, garmin forerunner tools) have trouble with this. Add the following lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:

# stop loading of garmin_gps to serial module for Garmin USB devices
blacklist garmin_gps

• Install gpsbabel and garmin-forerunner-tools: “apt-get install gpsbabel garmin-forerunner-tools”
• Set proper permissions on the device node. Create a file named /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules with this line in it:

SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666"

• You want to import your track to Google Earth? Use garmin_save_runs which gives you a *.gmn file. Then use garmin_gpx on this file to get a gpx file and filnally use gpsbabel to convert the gpx to a kml file like this: gpsbabel -i gpx -f <inputfile>.gpx -o kml -F <outfile>.kml
• To get a list of time, position and hearth rate use this command: gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb:0 -o garmin301 -F <outfile>. See also this post in the ubuntu forums.
• If usb:0 as input file doesn’t work try a negativ number to get a list of recognized devices. If this command fails make sure that the module garmin_gps is NOT loaded.
• Have a look at Trainingchart and PyTrainer

• Reading waypoints can be done either by garmin tools or by gpsbabel: gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb:0 -o gpx -F <outfile>.gpx

• Writing Waypoints to the Forerunner is easy as well: gpsbabel -i gpx -f <infile>.gpx -o garmin -F usb:0

Update:

• Entering Waypoints (especially for geocaching): The Forerunner supports entering waypoints on the device. For you it may seem obvious, but it took me a long time to find out that this is possible at all. Just enter the Navigation menu, go to “save waypoint” and move the cursor to the position field. There you can <enter> the new values.
• Display the current time: In the menus the Forerunner displays the current time. I think you can also display it on the main screen if you customize the layout.

The installation of the OpenWRT Firmware was quiete easy. At first I did backup my old router configuration in the Webinterface, then I did an Firmware Upgrade, also from the Webinterface. After the firmware was uploaded the router took about one or two minutes to reboot and did then respond to pings on 192.168.1.1. Note: If you already have a device using the address 192.168.1.1 on the network, you’d better connect the WRT54 directly to your pc.

The documentation for OpenWRT is quite scattered around the wiki. Probably the first page to look at is the page about configuring Kamikaze. One thing that confused me at frist was how I could log in to the router after the upgrade. Since OpenWRT, by default, doesn’t offer a webinterface and I couldn’t find a default password for SSH I was curios how to log in. The solution is fairly simple: Just connect via telnet, set a root password and the log in via SSH. If you want to change the ip address, go to /etc/config/network and change the address of the “br-lan” interface. You should also add a default gateway and an DNS server, in case your router isn’t going to be connected over his wan interface.