On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:56:34AM -0800, Les wrote: > 'On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:12 -0800, Michael A Peters wrote: > > Howdy all - > > > > I have a Garmin "etrex Legend" hand held GPS unit. > > > > I bought it for my field herping hobby (looking for wild reptiles and > > amphibians). > > It came with a serial cable for connecting to a PC but software is only > > for Windows. I don't want to buy the software and try with w/ wine/CXO > > because it it doesn't work then I wasted money, and I have not had > > software that interfaces with hardware (such as a serial port) ever work > > well in CXO. > > > > Since spring is almost here, I'd like an easier way to use it in Linux > > rather than just manually reading the collected waypoints and entering > > them into my field reports. > > > > What I would like to do is to be able to read waypoints right off the > > unit through a cable (either serial or, if one is available, a USB > > cable) into Linux. gpsbabel is what I use to get data to and from the GPS. -Marcel
