GPS to CMAP aptop connection using COM to USB adapter
Peter Hendra 13 May 2005 03:33:26
Hi,
I posted this to rec.boats.electronics a few days ago but have had no response.
I am running CMap software on a laptop. I am using a USB to serial port adapter. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There seems to be no logic as to why CMap sometimes fails to accept the input. The "on" and data lights on the PFranc brand flash but CMap says that there is no connection. I have checked the ports in "system" but it sometimes doesn't know anything about the USB connection. I have been using it for 4 years now. I have tested other brands for friends on other laptops and some just do not make a connection.
Is it CMap?
Is it XP pro?
Any suggestions. Peter Hendra N.Z. yacht Herodotus
My Laptop gets confused sometimes thinking that I have a USB mouse or sometimes a serial mouse hooked up to the USB ports when its actually my GPS reciever antenna thingy. Check your device manager to see what you have listed when it is working, and when it isnot working and that may give you a clue to whats going on. steveinusa@gmail.com
On Fri, 13 May 2005 09:33:26 +1000, Peter Hendra <plhendra@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Hi, >
I posted this to rec.boats.electronics a few days ago but have had no>response.>
I am running CMap software on a laptop. I am using a USB to serial>port adapter. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There seems>to be no logic as to why CMap sometimes fails to accept the input. The>"on" and data lights on the PFranc brand flash but CMap says that>there is no connection. I have checked the ports in "system" but it>sometimes doesn't know anything about the USB connection. I have been>using it for 4 years now. I have tested other brands for friends on>other laptops and some just do not make a connection.>
Is it CMap?>
Is it XP pro?>
Any suggestions.>Peter Hendra>N.Z. yacht Herodotus
Everytime I plug in my com to usb adapter XP assigns it to some unlikely com port, usually somewhere in the 20's. I have to manually reset it back to com 1 and all is well until I unplug and re-plug it. Don't know if that's your problem but worth a look if you haven't already. BF
"Steve H." <steveinusa@gmail.com> wrote in message news:nm7h02pqptq07b6em2gq7femtv2tuh1s5u@4ax.com...> My Laptop gets confused sometimes thinking that I have a USB mouse or> sometimes a serial mouse hooked up to the USB ports when its actually> my GPS reciever antenna thingy.> Check your device manager to see what you have listed when it is> working, and when it isnot working and that may give you a clue to> whats going on.> steveinusa@gmail.com>
On Fri, 13 May 2005 09:33:26 +1000, Peter Hendra> <plhendra@yahoo.com.au> wrote:>
Hi,> >
I posted this to rec.boats.electronics a few days ago but have had no> >response.> >
I am running CMap software on a laptop. I am using a USB to serial> >port adapter. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There seems> >to be no logic as to why CMap sometimes fails to accept the input. The> >"on" and data lights on the PFranc brand flash but CMap says that> >there is no connection. I have checked the ports in "system" but it> >sometimes doesn't know anything about the USB connection. I have been> >using it for 4 years now. I have tested other brands for friends on> >other laptops and some just do not make a connection.> >
Is it CMap?> >
Is it XP pro?> >
Any suggestions.> >Peter Hendra> >N.Z. yacht Herodotus>
