[Xastir] Do the garmin GPS's work for Trackers?

[Skyler F]

Thanks, My friend KD0MLV just bought a Garmin 18x USB gps (not the older
serial one) and I am trying to help him through email get his station up.

He has been working hard trying to install drivers but not much luck has
been achieved.

What can I tell him to help out on getting that GPS to work? I saw on an
earlier message that the serial version is someones primary GPS.

The Garmin 18x is simply a USB gps. No serial data or power, it gets power
from USB and sends signals via USB. According to the last message on this
thread, are if there is no serial port does that mean we are out of luck?

The Courage Classic bike tour starts this Saturday so between my BU-353
which worked, my garmin Nuvi which I am having troubles with and his garmin
18x we need two of those GPS's to work (or last minute find a compatible
GPS at some store)

We are both on Ubuntu and thanks for any patience. My friend and I are
fairly new to linux and we're in high school.

Thanks,
Skyler KD0WHB

And by the way thanks to everyone for so much help so far.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm no expert on all the models of Nuvi's.  I was using a Nuvi-350 in
> the Jeep connected to a Tracker2 TNC and it worked fine.  However:  I
> had to have the GPS in it's cradle to get power, then had to have a
> separate data cable plugged into the side which gave me NMEA serial to
> feed to/from the Tracker2.
>
> Check whether the Nuvi has a serial data cable available for it, and
> whether you have to power the Nuvi separately from that cable (I did
> for mine) to make it all work.  If there's no serial data cable
> available for that model, then you won't be able to hook it to Xastir
> or a TNC.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I can confirm the BU-353 GPS works with XASTIR.
> >
> > I want to help my friend with APRS now, and am wondering if the Garmin
> nuvi
> > 200w will work to send out location coordinates to xastir?
> >
> > It isn't just plug in and play like the other GPS was, so if it does
> work,
> > is there anything I have to do?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Skyler KD0WHB
> >
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