[olug] Trying to connect a Garmin Legend to an eeePC

[Paul H. Lewis]

I got a eeePC for Christmas and just love it.  In particular my wife 
picked up a 701SD at Toys-R-Us.  Well, I enjoy geocaching and decided I 
wanted to try and connect my Garmin Legend to the eeePC so I could log 
in to the site will I was mobile.  Went to Best Buy the other day and 
bought a Dynex USB to serial cable, since the Garmin cable only connects 
to a 9 pin serial port.  Downloaded GPSMAN from the ASUS site, 
configured the software and of course it didn't recognize the GPS.  So 
I've scoured the web for 5 days now and I think I've mucked up my eeePC 
more than I should have.

I followed the instructions on this site:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:usbserial

and have had no luck getting the eeePC to recognize the Garmin Legend 
and now my eeePC will not automatically connect to my  wireless network 
anymore.  I have to manual connect to the network and it takes the PC a 
few minutes to accomplish the task.  I think the problem with the 
network may lie in the replacement usbserial.ko file that I have 
replace, but I'm not exactly sure how that could be.  Can someone advise?

TIA,
Paul