Tom Lancaster a ?crit : > what's tricky is the proprietary garmin interface (round with 4 pins). Is it just a connector problem or is there some electronic inside their cable?
Because if it's only about the connector, I'm pretty sure you can ask people in Vietnam (some student in electronic? or even just electricity) to make a custom-bust-still-professional cable for about a few USD (just don't forget to pay the student too ;-) )? Is the use of the 4 pins documented somewhere? There is not that much possibilities though? Probably 1 for RX, 1 for TX, 1 for ground and may be 1 for synchronization clock? > On the Garmin website they're selling them for ~ $60, which is close to half > the cost of the GPS unit! > At that price I doubt it's only a cable. Probably more a dongle? And may be not compatible with Linux at all? May be the easiest way is to ask for all these information to the OSM project? -- 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/20090203/9189ea9b/attachment.pgp
