Re: Streets & Trips - no USB GPS support help

MicroSoft's "USB" GPS has a builtin serial to USB converter, so it looks
like a serial
GPS to the system.


"Stan Birch" <birch999@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:42d36aee.2430109@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 Pink Floyd <pfloydnope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 (with the improved GPS support);
>>Garmin GPSmap 60C (with serial and USB PC cables);
>>IBM Thinkpad laptop (with no serial port!).
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>>S&T only looks for a connected GPS on serial ports, it won't
>>recognize anything connected to a USB port. Well, you see the
>>problem... without a serial port on my laptop, the software and
>>the GPS can't comunicate.
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> MSS&T 2005 works fine with the accompanying third party USB receiver
> included wit their GPS combo package. S&T and the GPS unit are quite
> independent of one another, and basically, any GPS unit that meets the
> required NMEA specs should work.
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> Each GPS receiver will require its own drivers in order to be recognized
> by the computer. Plug in the receiver, and then check the Device Manager
> to verify that it is being recognized by your compter. Details will be
> located under:
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> Ports (COM & LPT)
> Microsoft USB GPS Port (COM 4);
> (or whatever for your particular receiver)
>
> If that's missing, then S&T won't recognize the presence of a GPS
> receiver.
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> If it is present, then note the COM Port #, and if S&T won't recognize
> it's presence, then try telling it to look at COM Port # 4 or whatever.
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> If that doesn't work, unplug the GPS from the USB, and then plug it in
> again, and check to see whether S&T will now recognize the receiver.
> If it does, after plugging in the receiver a second time, then you
> probably have something else using the same COM Port preventing S&T from
> recognizing the receiver on boot up. In that case, go to the Device
> Manager, and change the Properties for the receiver to another COM Port
> that isn't being used for anything else, like a modem. Then reboot to
> see if the change has been effective. If not, you may have an
> incompatible GPS; or perhaps the COM Port speed is set too high, and
> should be reduced to 4800.
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