My Latest Toy
My latest toy, soon to be hooked up to the iBook: a Garmin Geko 201 GPS. This thing is insanely tiny - about the same size as my Sony/Ericsson T226 cellphone.
My latest toy, soon to be hooked up to the iBook: a Garmin Geko 201 GPS. This thing is insanely tiny - about the same size as my Sony/Ericsson T226 cellphone.
August 29th, 2004 at 8:56 pm
Oh yeah. Wardriving here you come…It gets addicitive, let me tell ya. Cruising your neighborhood at midnight doing 5 M.P.H. so you can grab those ever elusive signals.
August 29th, 2004 at 9:02 pm
Gotta order the PC connection cable though.. but we tested the GPS out on a weekend trip to Cracker Barrel on Saturday for breakfast. Its amazing that something the size of my cellphone is accurate to 15 feet. It was even discerning lane changes on I-35.
August 29th, 2004 at 9:04 pm
I’ve got a USB>Serial cable you can borrow for a few weeks if you like. I’m not currently using it. Once I get my new GPS though I’ll want it back.
August 29th, 2004 at 9:06 pm
I’ve already got one, thanks though.
Turns out the IOGear adapter is actually made by ATen, and the ATen drivers for OSX are better.
August 29th, 2004 at 9:08 pm
I tried the IOGear and could never get it to work reliably with my iBook. My Keyspan works with no problem. I liked the IOGear because it was more compact though.
August 29th, 2004 at 9:17 pm
I’ve not tried it with the iBook yet, but i’ve never had a problem using it with the PowerMac. The only thing I didn’t like about the IOGear/ATen is that it just installs the drivers - and doesn’t tell you that it created /dev/tty.usbserial0 and /dev/cu.usbserial0
I guess they expect Mac users to be a little more technical.