Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Problems with connecting to Garmin GPSmap 76C on Mac OS X

[Robert L. <rob...@us...>]

> > I've just bought a 76C and I'm trying to connect it up to my Mac by
> > USB, but it's not managing to download anything. It works fine on the
> 
> Ah. No worries, problem solved by upgrading the firmware from 3.50 to
> 4.10 (http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=551)
> through PC and then trying again.

This is mentioned in
  http://www.gpsbabel.org/osnotes.html
but I don't really expect most folks to find that.  Is there any place
we could mention that where it'd be clearer?

The core of the problem is Garmin's USB doesn't play nicely with stacks
other than Windows. Old stacks played very badly - as you just observed.
About spring of last year they started playing well enough that we were
able to make them reliable with some workarounds but the very latest
ones should be pretty good. 

Now that Garmin themselves are interested in Mac, they're more motivated
than when I sent them CatC analyzer traces quoting the USB specs they
violated some two years ago. :-) 

> Thanks for all the great work on GPSBabel  :)

You're welcome.

RJL