Customer Reviews

Gilsson USB to Serial DB9 Adapter for Garmin

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I bought this adapter to use with my Garmin Geko 201 handheld GPS receiver and a Garmin-compatible serial cable and it works well. I did have to download the PL2303 driver [...]because the included drivers on the CD were older and I was running Mac OS X 10.5.2. After installing the new driver and rebooting, I tested it with several programs and was able to successfully transfer data in both directions. The driver disc is a 3" CD and will not load into a slot-loading CDR - which is another reason you may need to download drivers online.

Just purchased the USB to serial cable for my older Garmin GPS III+ (my new computer doesn't have a serial port). The driver software loaded easily. I initally got a hardware install error when the device was plugged in. I opened the "Device Manager" and uninstalled the device then the ran "New Hardware Wizard" which correctly installed the GPS device. The data transfer went smoothly with MapSource. Probably should have just tried to simply "plug-and-play" rather than install the device driver in hindsight.

I wanted to connect my old Garmin 12MAP GPS to my PC using a USB cable. This cable was just what I needed. Installation was easy and it works both under Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Just a warning that while this is probably a fine product, it will not work with 64-bit OS. There are no drivers for 64-bit Vista OS for this (or any other serial to USB adapter) yet.

Cheap and perfect piece of equipment. Garmin sells one like this for 60 bucks. I would take this over any other one. I did have some confusion setting it up since the disk that they send is for more than just one type of cable but I am from Georgia so I am not all that smart. Great product!

I would not get this if you have Windows 7. The product line says it is supported by Windows 7, but the supplied drivers only go through XP and Vista. Doing an internet search quickly turns up other unhappy customers with this problem - there do not seem to be any drivers out there for this product with Windows 7, at least none that work for me or many others. Hope this saves others the frustration I had to put up with.

Works fine on a different PC running XP, but isn't recognized in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 that I'm running on my Core i7 desktop machine.

My computer running Windows 7 simply can't find the GPS trying any of several install methods.

I installed the driver that came with the adaptor and plugged my Garmin in to download maps. The computer did not find the GPS. Perhaps it is the Windows 7 operating system, the drivers, but my old computer has a serial port that I can use.

I bought this cable so I could use a Garmin GPS with my MacBook Pro. Not so much.
If you have a slot-loading (as opposed to a tray that comes out) CD/DVD drive, forget about installing the drivers from the 3 inch disk that comes with this. If you manage to find the drivers online, they don't do the trick on the newer OSX.

I ended hooking up the Garmin eTrex Legend GPS to the serial port of a very old PC to update the device (negating the need for this cable altogether). Hardware is usually only as good as the driver that enables it. Still running Windows XP on a PC? Works fine.

Mac user (with this GPS)? Forget it.