[OSM-talk] NaviGPS... help! :-)

[Corey Burger]

n 10/14/07, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Borrowed some of the Navi GPS units for the Winchester weekend but having big
> trouble getting Linux, Windows and Mac boxes to recognise them. Seems the
> only way is to get drivers for them (which at a guess means Linux may be
> out).... is that correct?
>

For the windows and Mac OS X machines, maybe, but for the Linux
machines, all you need a reasonably up to date distro (SUSE 10.X,
Ubuntu 6.06+, Fedora 6+, etc) as the garmin drivers were merged into
mainline around the 2.6.11 period. You will need the gpsbabel program.

Corey