[OSM-newbies] Making Garmin eTrex Vista responsive to a Linux system

[Johannes Huesing]

Andy Street <mail at andystreet.me.uk> [Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:51:16PM CET]:
[...]
> The workaround I found was to run gpsbabel as root so the problem is
> probably related to the device permissions.

This did it for me; I can download waypoints and tracks nicely. Thank you
very much!

I presume I need access to the eTrex as a mass storage device to upload
a map? Is there a similar workaround for this?

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