JALBA

Well, with 20 years in pc's you gotta know what you are doing. Sorry for the basic questions - gotta start somewhere. I have liked SIIG for a long time. Seems strange it works for others but not the Legend. Have you tried reinstalling GSAK. There was a previous person here that got it working after reinstalling GSAK. OT but are you a HAM operator - KD5OM sounds like a call sign. I will do the unistall/re-install of GSAK. I have no experience with a USB to RS-232 serial cable. I was curious just how well something like this might work. I also don't have a lot of experience with Windows XP but I'm learning. I will report on the findings. The OSs get a bit more complicated with every release. I cut my teeth on LDOS & then MSDOS back in the days of the Z80. How things have changed! I did find some very enlightening FAQs at: http://www.bb-elec.com/technical_library.asp#RS232 Yes I'm a Ham. KD5OM. This makes my thirtieth year pounding brass. Go to http://www.kd5om.com 73s de Jerry KD5OM Follow up on the USB to RS-232 9 pin serial problems. I can not explain it. Today at 3 pm I hooked it all up once again and ran Garmin's software update to see if it would read the GPS and it did. Garmin's software utility has an "autodect" serial port feature and it found the GPS on com1 where the Device Manager was reporting com5? Go figure. I started GSAK and setup for com1 and lickity-split, the transfer took place! Note to Clyde: Please consider in future releases maybe the same "autodetect" com port feature as in Garmin's software update utility. By the way, we have only been enjoying Geocaching for only about a month and wondered if there was a better way to enter waypoints. GSAK is definately the way to go. Good show Clyde. Jerry alias KD5OM

Well, with 20 years in pc's you gotta know what you are doing. Sorry for the basic questions - gotta start somewhere. I have liked SIIG for a long time. Seems strange it works for others but not the Legend. Have you tried reinstalling GSAK. There was a previous person here that got it working after reinstalling GSAK. OT but are you a HAM operator - KD5OM sounds like a call sign. I will do the unistall/re-install of GSAK. I have no experience with a USB to RS-232 serial cable. I was curious just how well something like this might work. I also don't have a lot of experience with Windows XP but I'm learning. I will report on the findings. The OSs get a bit more complicated with every release. I cut my teeth on LDOS & then MSDOS back in the days of the Z80. How things have changed! I did find some very enlightening FAQs at: http://www.bb-elec.com/technical_library.asp#RS232 Yes I'm a Ham. KD5OM. This makes my thirtieth year pounding brass. Go to http://www.kd5om.com 73s de Jerry KD5OM

I suppose you're writing to me, JALBA alias KD5OM. I have been tearing and reasembling PCs for 20 years and I chose SIIG because in the past, their stuff always worked the first time. As I shared, I tested this cable installation with my Street Atlas mapping program and three different GPSs and it works on all three. I have uninstalled and re-installed the drivers, re-mapped the com ports through the Properties Dialoge box. I wish Garmin made a USB cable for the Etrexes. Thank you for the fast reply. Jerry

I have the same problem. I just bought a new notebook pc and they don't put RS-232 serial ports on them any longer. I bought a SIIG USB to Serial cable and my Street Atlas sees my Garman Etrex Vista and Etrex (yellow) fine. Street Atlas also sees my DeLorme Tripmate fine through this cable. My Device Manager say's everthing is operating properly. However, GSAK on my new laptop renders the error message "can't init com 2 ( and any other available com ports)". I tried checking and unchecking the Use USB box in GSAK GPS Setup. When using GSAK on my old Notebook "P233 clunker running XP Pro" I can send waypoints to my GPSs just fine direct through it's RS-232 serial port. I figure it might be just a hardware or OS problem but I don't know where to go to fix it. New notebook is a Dell Inspiron 1000, Win XP os. GSAK is 5.1.4 Build 10. Suggestions anybody? Jerry alias KD5OM