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Serial to USB adapter for Garmin Etrex Vista - driver for windows vista ?
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| 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
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| 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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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
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