I have just purchased a Garmin etrex legend, which came with a rs232 cable. My PC has no COMMS port?

Question

I have purchased a convertor cable so i can connect though USB port. But I keep getting error 'Device not Found'.

I'm at a loss can anyone help???

Answer 1

Garmin indicates that not all USB to RS-232 cables will work.

Their faq on it is at http://www8.garmin.com/support/faqs/faq....

Their cable is at https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=... but their cables all seem to be way over priced.

I would consider going out on ebay and look for non-Garmin cables that are known to work with the etrex units.  Power cables for use in a car are also much cheaper there.

I just uploaded tracks from my etrex vista HCx (but the prodess would work with any GPS as long as you have software like Mapsource that can create a GPX file) to Google Map

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en...