Re: Delorme SA2006 vs MS Streets and Trips 2006

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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


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