GPA

Have an IBM laptop, Win XP Pro, using Xircom PCMCIA Bluetooth card and the subject GPS receiver. Works with DeLorme Street Atlas v 9.0 like a real jewel. Street Atlas "finds" the GPS as USB, even tho it is wireless. Installed MS Streets & Trips 2008. GPS config only looks for COM ports and doesn't find the GPS. Is there a work around? Tried contacting HOLUX twice in recent days (09/03/07 and 09/18/07) with no response.
BTW, I'm a newbie to this forum.

JakeRich

Welcome to Aximsite! Try looking at the COM ports under Device Manager to see what serial ports are mapped to the Bluetooth link, then try setting MS S&T Com port to match. You may find dozens of serial ports for BT, almost all of which will be unused, but one of them should be the GPS.

GPA

Appreciate the prompt reply, thanks.
There are COM ports listed as Bluetooth starting with 5 and ending with 20 something, none identified as GPS. The DeLorme Street Atlas finds the GPS as a USB device because they supply a USB emulator program. MS Streets & Trips only searches for COM ports and, apparently ignores the Bluetooth COM ports as being in use. MS tech support (India) claims no responsibility because the GPS is "third party" and did not come with their program.

shoe

If all else fails, use GpsGate

JakeRich

Originally Posted by GPA

Appreciate the prompt reply, thanks. There are COM ports listed as Bluetooth starting with 5 and ending with 20 something, none identified as GPS. The DeLorme Street Atlas finds the GPS as a USB device because they supply a USB emulator program. MS Streets & Trips only searches for COM ports and, apparently ignores the Bluetooth COM ports as being in use. MS tech support (India) claims no responsibility because the GPS is "third party" and did not come with their program.

The ports will not be identified as the GPS port, just as numbers as you see. However, now that you have all the numbers, you have a couple of choices. If you know that not all of them are in use, you can renumber or delete them. Read this site for how to get rid of all those ports. Then pair up the Holux and the one set of ports that get created will be the ones to use. Or you can find some shareware or freeby utility that will search ports looking for NMEA data, like Easy GPS Tester and let it search among all those ports to find the GPS. Once you have the correct port, set it in your software and you should be good to go.

ChillyCat

Originally Posted by shoe

If all else fails, use GpsGate

Absolutly....the best advise given so far.

GpsGate will make the "hookup" painless and requires virtually no fiddling.