Re: Garmin GPS 18 USB with Pocket PC 2002. Need PPC driver.

lee_melnikov wrote:

Hi there.
I'm trying to figure out how to use Garmin 18 with my Toshiba e550g Pocket PC 2002. I have a usb port in PPC's docking station, but when I plug GPS in it doesn't recognise it (obviously) and asking for device name.
Garmin doesn't have Pocket PC drivers for this GPS. I tried driver pharos is using (Prolific or sometihng), but coudn't get that to work since I don't know what Prolific device name would be.

Any help would be appriciated. I love this Garmin GPS, but need to use it with PPC.

The GPS 18 USB only outputs NMEA data in the Garmin proprietary sentences so you need to have either a Garmin application for the PPC (there is no such application as far as I know) or you need to have fransongate or a similar Garmin to NMEA translator on the PPC. More info here:

http://tinyurl.com/w8g97 (full link below if tinyurl does not work)

http://franson.com/gpsgate/guide.asp?section=Garmin_USB_GPS_200&platform=winxp

Jack

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