Guest bwware Posted July 11, 2001 Share Posted July 11, 2001 I have a laptop with no serial connection on it. I want to use a serial to USB cable in order to hook my GPS 315 up to it. has anyone done this? have any problems? Do i need to do some special configuration? Thanks in advance! Bill Quote Link to comment
Guest MountainDiver Posted July 12, 2001 Share Posted July 12, 2001 My laptop also has no serial port. I use a USB to Serial adapter with my eTrex and it works fine. Nothing special needed. The USB to Serial adapter software creates a "virtual" serial port. Just set up your GPS software to access that serial port and it should work fine. In fact, I have found that data transfers faster than using the real serial port on my desktop. ------------------ The MountainDiver N 34 01.649 W084 27.211 "GPS satellites are nice because they can answer two of the three most common questions in my life: "What time is it?" and "Where am I?" If they could also somehow determine whether I have any clean underwear left, the bases would be covered." --- The Brunching Shuttlecocks Quote Link to comment
Guest k2dave Posted July 13, 2001 Share Posted July 13, 2001 I havn't used a serial to usb (or usb to serial?) but have used and old scsi scanner with a scsi-usb adapter and boy does it work great. The device request the scsi drivers for the scanner and it worked - absoutly no problems (and same scanning speed). Best part is that it freed up the irq that the scsi card used. I stated this becauce scsi is much more difficult to emulate then serial so I don't think you will have a problem. Quote Link to comment
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