Tom Lancaster a ?crit : > We did, and they're willing to give us more than one unit. The only catch is > it's a Garmin Geko, and they don't yet have cables for them. > So we can get data in the GPS box but not use them after that! Ahem? :-D
> I'm wondering if anyone on this list knows about the availability and pricing > of garmin -> serial / usb cables here, or in HCMC. > I don't know about the availability in Vietnam (still I'm sure we could find it) but I bought one USB-Serial (RS232) cable 2 years ago in France and it was about 35 EUR. For any USB device you should check its compatibility with Linux by trying it before buying it (eg while in the shop) ! Mine is recognized like this when I plug it in: $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 002: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port $ dmesg usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic usbserial: USB Serial Driver core usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303 pl2303 3-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected usb 3-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303 pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? ? ? Responsable technique r?gional Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? ? ? http://www.asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? ? ? http://www.auf.org/ Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 ? Fax : +84 4 8247383 ? Cellul. : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle: merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe non texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Taille: 260 octets Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20090203/9382cdd7/attachment-0001.pgp
