Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:58:40 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CT100 & Serial access while travelling
At 05:43 AM 15/07/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:39:36 -0500 >From: "Mark H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] CT100 & Serial access while travelling > >I need a serial connection to interface with my GPS unit. Any idea how 'basic' its interface is? (ie. will it only need Tx and Rx lines)? If you've got the hardware (ie. 2 serial connectors or a serial breakout box) you could try just patching ground, Tx and Rx lines through from the GPS to your computer and see if it still works ... if it does then doing an IrDA 'hack' may be a possibility (that or a simplified motherboard hack if you want to go that far). >The IrDA would cover the a palm sync. Any tricks to getting IrDA to work >with the Palm? I have not been successful on my IBM notebook so far. I've only tried this under Win9x but its worked on both my Librettos as well as my boss's Sharp Actius ... go into the IrDA control panel aplet and make sure its enabled and that you've enabled application support on comX ... then all you need to do is go into the Hotsync setup and tell it to use that com port. Then go into the hotsync application on the palm and instead of 'Direct Serial', select 'IR to PC/Handheld'. Note that OS hacks (eg. Hackmaster aplets) that bind to the serial interface (or either serial interface on newer Palms) may need to be disabled for this to work. Also, when you point the palm at the Libretto, you may get a message that someone is trying to transfer something to your palm, dismiss this dialog before pressing the hotsync button (I'm guessing the palm thinks the PC's IrDA PnP search signals are another palm executing a transmit request). I don't know how this would work under 2k as Microsoft removed raw serial port support for IrDA ... perhaps one of the 3rd party shim drivers (that let you use IrDA ports as COM ports under win2k) such as the one that comes with Nokia's (freeware) data suite may be worth a try. Hope this helps! - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
