Re: Streets & Trips - no USB GPS support help

Thanks very much for all the replies everyone. I'll look around
for a USB to serial converter.

Pink



Pink Floyd <pfloydnope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Xns968E6332E4823pfloydnoperochestern@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> Help and ideas needed please!
>
> I've got:
> 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!).
>
> 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.
>
> Any ideas?
> Will Microsoft provide an upgrade?
> Any recommendations on a Serial/USB converter? (I'm leery of
the
> drivers that wopuld need to be installed.... messing other
things
> up).
>
> BTW, nowhere on the S&T packaging is this restriction made
clear.
>
> Thanks!
>



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