I got a Garmin Forerunner 305. I’m trying to get it running on my Fedora 10 system, as well as my Mac Mini.

So far, pytrainer just won’t work. It seems to rely on an old blacklisted driver gps_garmin. I have gotten
gpsbabel working, via a usb permissions rule change:

I added the file /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules with the following contents:

SYSFS{idVendor}==”091e”, SYSFS{idProduct}==”0003″, MODE=”0666″

With that, I could run:

gpsbabel -t -r -w -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F outputfile.gpx

This is a nice XML file. But what can I read it into?

On the mac, it gets a little wierd. The Garmin Training Center wouldn’t detect the device at all.
I downloaded the latest version. It still had a lot of trouble detecting the device, asking me
to reboot the 305 several times. There seems to be a hint that some maps are included
in the application, but no luck downloading them. It’s odd that the “supported” platform doesn’t
even work as well as Fedora.