[juneau-lug] Re: Garmin Etrex GPS

Kevin,

I have an eTrex that works just fine with Fedora. I had to get a PCMCIA serial 
adapter for my laptop. Kind of clunky, but it works. I use Quantum GIS to 
download/upload the gps data.

The eTrex is a bit slow on aquiring sats. It can be fairly accurate if you can 
track a WAAS sat. I got the 3m accuracy while I was down south. Haven't used it 
much around here. Would like to get one with a better antenna, though.

Great price if you just want to tinker around with GPS....

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2006 2:36 pm
Subject: [juneau-lug] Garmin Etrex GPS

> A guy I know is selling a Garmin Etrix GPS.  Pretty basic model 
> but he
> only wants $50 for it.  No USB - just rs232 and I'll probably have to
> get a cable kit from Garmin for it.  Anybody have one of these?  
> Do they
> play well w/Linux (in my case, SUSE)?
> 
> ...Kevin
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