GPS & USB connections

Yep, Tried all the different boot up/turn on/plug in sequences suggested by the 1,000,000 websites I have looked at over the last 2 days.
thanks
Shawn

Well...still no idea ...but just to help others (who may know) what program are you using to interface with GPS? Also have you contacted seller of cable?
Arent GPS's and computers fun!!
Cheers
Greg

Shawn
What Greg said is correct, you must turn on the computer before turning on GPS. If you don't the computer will recognise your GPS as a serial mouse and start looking for it
Mike

Also I notice in OziExplorer that upload and download baud rates (for waypoints/tracks) are set independant of NMEA baud rate (for satelite data..moving map)...so another possible issue....but mabe you're not using OziE?
Cheers
Greg

Thanks guys, I am trying to get the GPS to talk with Oziexplorer.
Yep, tried the different baud rates for upload/download and NMEA etc.
I have actually got them to communicate a bit more (can now download waypoints to GPS) by setting the GPS make to "NMEA only". this allows me to download waypoints to the GPS, but it can't upload them from GPS.
Still trying
Thanks
Shawn

G'Day Brian,
I got it from GPSOZ, took one day to arrive
Cheers
Shawn

Thanks Shawn, I'll check it out!

Hi Brian,
I think the connection you are refering to on your laptop is for something else. I had the same problem with mine, I thought it was a female conection, but it was actually a different type.
You have to use a serial to usb adapter. Available from GPSOZ or I got mine from Ebay.

You will need a gender bender to get it working.. possibly.
As craig has said though, I dont think you are putting it in the right spot.

Count the pins on the laptop.. if theres 9 in that plug, you have the right plug- go and get a DB9 Gender bender from a computer store. It is unlikely that this will be the solution. More likely is:
If theres 15 pins, then you are looking at the video port, and you will need a USB to serial adapter, install that first then plug in the GPS to it

Thanks for that Wayne,
Found that site late last night and cured the GPS/mouse recognition problem. Can also down load waypoints from laptop to GPS.
Now the only thing I can't do now is upload waypoints from the GPS to laptop, everything else now works great. Just got to get the last bit worked out
Cheers
Shawn

Just to explain our cases: we have few installations which are still in test
phase. The system always consists of Dell notebook running Windows XP, NaviCharT application from DigiSoft and USB peripherals GPS-Mouse, Weather-Mouses and Baro-Mouse from Navtronic. Very important moment is that notebook computer is always taken out when leaving the boat, as same computer is used for business and home computing. To simplify handling while on boat all USB peripherals are connected to USB hub, therefore only one wire should be connected to computer.

As we all know there is an unpleasant problem in Windows XP that GPS
receiver is wrongly recognized during boot as Microsoft Serial Ball Pointer. There are several documents on web suggesting disabling of a device as a solution of the problem. It is certainly help, but it was not sufficient in our case, because computer is also used without nautical peripherals. Each time after returning to boat the user should pass again-and-again unpleasant procedure trying to kill crazy mouse on the screen. Certainly they were complaining. We had to do something more to solve the problem.

We have made several steps trying to improve the system. Finally seems that Serial Ball Pointer problem is the source of all problems. Since yesterday evening it seems that we succeeded to control it. We did following:

1. We deinstalled all unnecessary software and drivers collected in computer to reduce the possibility of collision.

2. Ref. http://www.chartworx.com/files/faqxpmj.doc
There is suggested that line with "NoSerialMouse" is inserted to system
start-up settings. After doing it the behaviour of system was better but for unknown reason sometimes mouse again went crazy.

3. Disabling of Ball Pointer as suggested in several documents on web solves the problem for that time. But if computer is switched on without nautical peripherals meanwhile, new start with nautical peripherals shows same problem again.

4. Ref. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/CEC/serddvr.mspx
Finally serial device enumeration in Windows as described in mentioned
Microsoft document could solve the problem by entering the required code FFFFFFFF to register
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\%Enumerator%\%Device_ID%
\%Instance_ID%\Device Parameters\SkipEnumerations

After mentioned code was written to all registers related to Ball Pointer
seems that problem is fixed.

We have made many, many start-ups in past 24 hours and crazy ball pointer did not appear again. The system looks stable. Once adjusted NaviChart starts immediately correct operation after connecting USB peripherals.

I have to say that for the moment it was tested on one system only in our
lab. In next few days we shall try on real boat application. I do hope that
fix would prove to be good. If you have option to test our suggestion I
would be happy to hear your experience as well. Our experience at least
could save some time.

Thanks Rox,
May have to do that as the last resort.
Cheers
Shawn