On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 02:05 -0800, Michael A Peters wrote: > > Thank you to everyone who responded. > I'm going to try gpsbabel first. > I grabbed the src.rpm from the sourceforge project and cleaned it up a > little bit (IE added proper BuildRequires and use system zlib). > > I'm going to play with that a little bit first, then play with some of > the other suggestions. > One thing I found useful - # /etc/security/console.perms.d/51-custom.perms # device classes -- these are shell-style globs <garmin>=/dev/ttyS0 # permission definitions <console> 0600 <garmin> 0660 root.uucp -=- Above file makes it so the device node can be written to by whomever the console user is (just like sound card).