Re: Streets & Trips - no USB GPS support help

That's only useble for gps with NMEA protocol on the USB port.
Garmin only deliver garmin protocol on usb

Ben

<birch999@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 Pink Floyd <pfloydnope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Becasue the software, MS Streets &Trips, only look sfor a GPS
>>connected to a serial port. I need a conversion from my
>>computer's USB port to a serial port that I can plug the serial
>>cable fomr my GPS into.
>
> Guess I never gave a lot of thought to the fact that while GPS receiver
> connects to the computer via USB, it shows up as being connected to COM
> 4 in the Device Manager.
>
>


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