I have an FTDI cable myself and never had problems using it with garmin devices. under the "Ports (COM&LPT)" section, can you see an "USB Serial Port (Com. With the cable connected, are you seeing any "unknown devices" in the Windows device manager? If not. What version of windows are you running? In any case you probably need to load drivers for the cable for it to work. Unfortunately not all USB->Serial cables work well with newer operating systems. What I call "legacy devices" would essentially be the pre 2007 stuff or so, which generally have a serial port instead of USB.ģ. "Free as in beer" means the software isn't charged for but the source code is closed, when it comes to GNU/open source the source code is available for anyone to edit. It's just a lame analogy made by programmers. My GPS is one of the Garmin 'serial' units as pictured below:ġ. I'll give the Garmin Mapsource a try.Īlso not sure what you mean by legacy devices. Not sure what you mean by "free as in beer" and GNU/open source.
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