Hi... You don't make mention if XP keeps announcing it's "found new hardware" or it complains of an otherwise unknowd device.
Look in the Control Pannel, for a "GPS" aplet. If that's there explore it. If not, look in the System applet, go to Hardware, and then the Device Manager. Look for any items with a yellow ! symbol. Chances are if there is one, it's the GPS device. If you right click on that, there are options you can use to re-enable it, re-load drivers etc. For drivers, make sure you have a live internet connection, then see if Windows can find one for itself, you will have to say yes when it asks if it can look at Windows Update (or similar) for any drivers. It's suprising what drivers for odd hardware MS seem to keep on record. If no "problem" devices exist, then look in the Ports (COM & LPT) subsection, and see what serial ports exist as far as XP knows. Maybe you have one at an unusual location COM7 for example, or even one showing, when you have no hardware serial ports! If so, try connecting to it with Hyperterminal and see if there is any typical GPS like NMEA activity. Of course, you may have just found a built in modem! (send the command AT&V and see what comes back, if it's a modem.) I don't know that hardware in detail, but many such odd devices show up in that sort of way, that's why XP may not be complainging about anything as such, as far as it is concerned, it's all OK hardware wise. Of course, if XP is whinging about thigs all the time, there is some work to be done to make it happy. In the short term, just disabling the problem devices so Windows can sort itself out (there has recently been the largest Windows Update ever!) then you can start to work to find any needed missing device drivers. I cant immagine even if its a unique thing, that it would be too dificult to find a specific driver. Take a look on Driverguide.com (one of many driver archive sites, but beware of malware though, check anything you download BEFORE you try it!) Sometimes people archive setup disks on sites like that for the common good (not what the OEMs think I suspect!) Cheers. Dave B. > -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:06:56 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] Subject: [time-nuts] CF-28 Laptop GPS Driver? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Hi: I've got a well used Panasonic CF-28S (Mk 3) Toughbook laptop computer that has an embedded GPS receiver but it came with the commercial version of WIN XP Pro. http://www.prc68.com/I/CF28Toughbook.shtml Is there a driver for this GPS receiver that's marked: Ref No. CN-GX0100A, s/n: 10128, Label: YEFM011059 ? Have Fun, Brooke Clarke _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
