Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell » cables http://nozell.com/blog Marc Nozell's random stuff -- mostly GNU/Linux, technology, genealogy, family Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:18:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 USB to Serial Adapter for Ubuntu http://nozell.com/blog/2007/06/18/usb-to-serial-adapter-for-ubuntu/ http://nozell.com/blog/2007/06/18/usb-to-serial-adapter-for-ubuntu/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:48:52 +0000 Marc Nozell http://nozell.com/blog/2007/06/18/usb-to-serial-adapter-for-ubuntu/ I recently received an updated laptop at work — a nice hp nc6400 notebook. Unlike the previous nc6000, this new on does not include a serial port which is problematic for the Garmin to serial cable I have. I ordered from CompUSA a USB to Serial Adapter by CablesToGo (model 26886) and it works great out of the box on Ubuntu/Feisty.

All I needed to change is the serial port to use, so:

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyS0 -o kml,points=0,line_color=ff0000ff -F waypoints.kml
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyS0 -o gpx -F waypoints.gpx

becomes:

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o kml,points=0,line_color=ff0000ff -F waypoints.kml
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F waypoints.gpx

FWIW, it uses the pl2303 kernel module.

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