Re: can't make connection between Palm Tungsten T3 and GPS receiver
- From: "Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com" <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:52:26 +0100
Jos?001 wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm not sure whether this is the right group to post this too but
> maybe someone might be able to help me?! hopefully!!I have been
> scanning the net especially
> http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/Palm/phardware.htm
> but don't seem to find anything relating to my problem. I purchased a
> GPS unit from ebay a few months ago with the intention of using it
> alongside my palm t3 but have had no luck in getting it to work.
> Sadley I jumped in with both feet when buying it since I had spent no
> time at all researching GPS.
> Nevertheless, the unit itself is small and transparent blue but has no
> markings to indicate its manufacturer. It connects to the palm via the
> serial port which has another cable which feeds power from the
> cigarette lighter. Around the same time, my uncle purchased the same
> gps receiver but with a different cable to connect to his Siemens
> pocket PC. His seems to be working fine and I noticed a small green
> blinking led inside the unit which dosent seem to come on in mine.
> I've no idea whether this is an indication that my unit is faulty or
> whether the light only comes on when the receiver makes contact with
> the PDA. I have tried to use ptelnet to test the serial port whilst
> connected to the receiver with no luck since after enabling all the
> settings I just get a blinking line which dosn't do much else. So my
> question is this....do i need to install a special driver on the palm
> (T3) to enable it to communicate with the gps, does it sound like the
> unit is faulty and is there anyway I can test it by perhaps plugging
> it into my pc (the power connection to the lighter has a USB plug).
> Also, the connection from the serial to the gps is made via a six pin
> male to femae plug, could this be the problem?
> Any help/advice anyone could give me at this point would be most
> gratfully appreciated.
Apologies if you are doing this but you do have it (the GPS receiver)
connected to a power source?
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Darren Griffin
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