"luc" wrote in news:1141775179.676589.149410
@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

what is a terminal program? remember, you are dealing with someone who
knows NOTHING!

thanks for great information. Some day, I may actually get it!

Luc


If you have a new computer, there won't be any serial port on it to play
with. USB has replaced old RS-232 and 422 ports on most all computers,
now, thank you manufacturers.

If you do have a serial port, a 9-pin serial port, you can hook the
Garmin to it by hooking the port 2 Garmin (green wire) to the serial
port's data input on pin 2 (pin 3 on the 25 pin old USB connector). The
pinout of serial RS-232 (and other info) is great on:
http://www.arcelect.com/rs232.htm

You can also buy a 9-pin serial port to USB converter cable for $50 from:
http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?...00&sbvname=293
or other places on the net. This is a way to get the archaic NMEA system
hooked to a new laptop computer with only USB ports on it so the nav
software will work with it.

Ok, Garmin green wire is hooked to pin 2 of the 9-pin serial port, Garmin
ground's black wire is hooked to pin 5 of the 9-pin serial port as shown
in the webpage's great picture. Now we need a "terminal program" to put
it on the screen for us.....

In Win XP click START - PROGRAMS - ACCESSORIES - COMMUNICATIONS and click
up HYPERTERM, Microsoft's dumbest dumb terminal program. Ignore it
asking you to make it the telnet program it wants to be, click NO. Then,
ignore it asking you to give it a name for this connection, click the
popup window's X to close it.

Click FILE at the top of Hyperterminal, then PROPERTIES to bring up the
New connection properties window. The Connect To tab is on top. Click
the arrow on the right side of line CONNECT USING and pick the com port
you're using. I only have COM3 on my Emachines mainframe. Ok, the other
stuff for dialup modems greys out and now click CONFIGURE button to bring
up the port settings page. Micro$not's system is too stupid to sync on
any com port speed, so you have to pick it. Pick 4800 Bits per second, 8
data bits, NONE parity, 1 stop bit and Flow control set to NONE so
Hyperterm ignores normal serial port flow control connections stupid NMEA
doesn't support. Click APPLY then OK. Click OK, again to close the
original popup window and at the bottom of the main Hyperterminal window
you should see:
Disconnected....Auto detect....4800 8-N-1...and some greyed out stuff.
If it says this, the screen will fill with NMEA sentences very rapidly if
the Garmin is talking to it. If it's working, click FILE then SAVE AS
and give it a name like GARMIN TEST PORT and a filename to save this
configuration to disk so you can just click it up next time you want to
look. Hyperterm is now listening to the COM port and typing whatever it
hears, even gibberish or binary gibberish or Garmin gibberish to anything
connected to it...at 4800 baud.

You now are using DOS 1.0's dumb terminal program from 1981...(c;

If you REALLY wanna see Hyperterm go crazy, pick one of the USB ports
something fast is connected to, like your USB mouse or webcam! It's all
gibberish...(c;

To give the grandchildren something to do, hook it to the USB keyboard
port so they can have type and read practice....

Did that help? I should be in tech support!...(c;