Re: Delorme SA2006 vs MS Streets and Trips 2006

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:04:29 -0800, "Ben Hogland"
<benhogland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

><altar> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:36:32 GMT, "Dan Lawyer" <dlawyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>>I know these drivers were designed for the DeLorme LT-20 and USB
>>>Earthmate,
>>>and the write-up on the website doesn't specifically say that 3rd
>>>party GPS
>>>units won't work, so I suspect they will as long as they are NMEA
>>>compliant.
>>>I also think I remember hearing in the forums that others were using
>>>them
>>>with other GPS units.
>>>
>>>The utility will only list the com ports available to it.
>>>If you set the utility to say....
>>>com 3 = Street Atlas (in SA set the port to com3)
>>>com 4 - Streets&Trips (in S&T set the port to com4)
>>>There are three com ports available, I said four earlier.
>>>
>>>I'm currently not using this utility, but I do know that S&T 2005 and
>>>earlier, only worked with com ports set to 4800 baud. Normally a new
>>>com
>>>port defaults to 9600 baud, so it needs to be changed in device
>>>manager. I'm
>>>pretty sure these show up in device manager if the utility is running,
>>>but I
>>>don't remember if they are updatable or not. This was in the first USB
>>>to
>>>Serial drivers that DeLorme put out.
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>
>> There is a monkey wrench to be concerned with. *IF* you already have a
>> gps/usb converter installed, there is a problem. When I got my Belkin
>> usb/serial converter cable, it had a driver that did the USB to serial
>> port conversion. The cable simply won't work without that driver, or
>> so the documentation says. Because of that, there is already a com
>> port, say, com5, installed on the computer, and shows up under
>> hardware when the cable is plugged in. The Delorme port emulator, and
>> GPSgate, attempt to access com5 in order to give you virtual ports,
>> say com1 and com2. Because com5 is already a virtual port, it doesn't
>> see it. So nothing works. I'm still working on a workaround, but so
>> far, no joy.
>>
>> Tom
>
>Yes, that is exactly the issue that my GPS is having too. My GPS
>requires a USB to serial driver to work. It's not seen by the multiple
>virtual port utilities. If you find a work-around, please let me know.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben
>
Stay tuned...

Tom
.