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GPS Not Recognized
Larry wrote:
thunder wrote ... Armond Perretta wrote: I have Capn 8.3 running with several GPS units that can be switched to provide nav data ... I just loaded Offshore Navigator Light and SeaClear II ... and it happens that neither program can "see" the GPS ... I am using a standard USB-to-serial cable ... Capn 8.3 can see anything I feed it ... The USB-to-serial cable *might* have something to do with it. The USB standard does not include a GPS device, so a proprietary driver is needed. Capn probably provides them, perhaps, ONL and SeaClear don't ... Excellent point. The Cap'n DOES have a USB serial port emulator/driver that I'm sure is STILL resident on his computer even if The Cap'n isn't booted. So, The Cap'n's driver is stealing the data away from the port ... The only way he'd get to see it is if he completely UNinstalled The Cap'n before installing one of these other crapware freebies, then he'd probably have GPS info off the open USB port that's not open now with the Cap'n's driver holding it close ... Trying to run several nav programs on that machine is SURE to screw it up with all the system tinkering they have to go through to get antiquated NMEA serial data through a computer that doesn't have ports for it any more ... I think you both are onto the explanation. I suspected that something was hijacking the port so I restarted the machine and did not run Capn, but instead tried ON Lite and SeaClear separately. Unfortunately that didn't do the trick as the port still appears to be closed to the other software. What would happen if I used an additional USB-to-serial converter in another USB socket? Maybe I'll try the next time I'm at the yard. -- Good luck and good sailing. s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare |
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