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Author Serial to USB adapter for Garmin Etrex Vista - driver for windows vista ?
Ole Holm

2008-03-25, 4:34 am

Hi everyone

I have a Garmin Etrex Vista, which requier a serial port. On my laptop with
Vista, there is no serial port, so I bougth a serial to USB cable. I canīt
find the rigth driver to get it work.

Does anyone have the answer ?

Ole Holm
Denmark

dold@11.usenet.us.com

2008-03-26, 10:33 pm

Ole Holm <kildeaasen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Garmin Etrex Vista, which requier a serial port. On my laptop with
> Vista, there is no serial port, so I bougth a serial to USB cable. I canB4t
> find the rigth driver to get it work.


The adapter that you bought didn't come with drivers?
What brand is it?
Is the driver built in to Windows?

The USB-Serial cable from pfranc.com is known to work, and their page has
some discussion about drivers.

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