EasyGPS Problem, Confirm receipt of command error?

[Guest leskowitz]

Please help, this has been a nightmare. I recently bought a cable to connect basic etrex to my palm Vx (see below). How the cable hooks up is still a mystery to me, the cable has a male end and so does the palm cable, but supposly per gpscables.com:

"Just plug into the existing cradle/cable that interfaces your PDA to your PC/Laptop (via a serial DB-9 connector"

Anyway, then I figure I would just hook up my eTrex to the PC to run EasyGPS. I bought a female DB9 to female DB9 gender adapter to hook from the gps to the computer. Now, I am getting an error message that GPS did not confrim receipt of command. The GPS is on, and connected. The port test does not works for any COMs ports when I am online, but when I am off the COM3 works but I still get an error. It gives me the message that I should disable software that uses that port. What should I do? HELP!!!

Confused in Houston

[Guest topografix]

Since you bought the cable from gpscables.com, you should ask them what you need to do to use it with your PC.

 

There are two types of gender changers - one is wired straight across, and the other is cross wired. They can tell you which one you need.

 

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Dan Foster

TopoGrafix: GPS Software, Waypoints, and Maps

http://www.topografix.com