CONNECTING GPS TO LAPTOP

Mike I dont envy you at all. I had the same trouble with it sounds like the same set up as you have got. The only suggestion I can give is have you installed the driver cd you should have got with your lead that goes from the GPS to the laptop. Once you have got that done, downloading your trips and saving them onto your laptop is the easy part. If you havnt got your disc I can give you the chines website I downloaded the driver off, and then ours was fine.
Good luck Mike, I know how frustrating it is when you dont know much about these things.
Karen

goodday mike
i take it you have run the serial/usb software cd into your laptop and set up the output port ? i found that with the old 310 i had to have everthing running before i turned the gps on then it would come up ok but if i turned the gps on before i had ozi running it would not play the game

steve

hi mike
http://www.wiretek.com.cn/download.asp?driver_lei=windows
Above is the website you need
I have sent you a message and if you want to call me i can talk you through it like the man from discover aus did to me....fell free to call if you need a hand to download the driver.
Karen

Mike the other thing is have you got the firmwear for your gps to talk to the laptop

God it gets worse

lol

Karen

Hi guys
If you have a meridan gold you do not need a laptop if you are in NSW go to gpsoz tey will up date your Gps to the latest spec and give you a update to 256 meg or a 500 meg chip to the latest AUST MAPS

Hi Mike I have the Magellan Meridan Gold GPS with Discover Aus, it works well with my desktop computer which has a 9 pin serial port. But like you I thought I'd like to get a laptop to use on the move.
I purchased a laptop on Saturday which only had USB ports so I purchased a Birkin serial to USB adapter which had a CD for drivers but still didn't work with the laptop or through the USB port on the desktop. Rang Magellan today and they said they have found they don't have any problems with the "Wiretech" brand hope to get one tomorrow.
I'll let you know how it goes.

Hi Guys have just finnished reserching this very subject for preparation to connect magellan meridian to laptop,contacted magellan they actually have part numbers for the components as follows, the usb to serial adaptor is the one that magellan reccomends so thats where i'm going.
If you quote these part numbers to any magellan outlet they should be able to get them for you, eg Rays out doors etc .
GPSMAGREC 7015 / usb to serial adaptor $ 63.80
GPSMAGREC 7020 / vehicle mount bracket $110.00
GPSMAGREC 7060 / pc/ 12 volt power cable $112.20
There the prices i've been quoted ,hope this helps
Steve West.

Evening all

I have just spent 2 weeks in Broken Hill at the OBC and whilst there went through the agony and frustration you people are experiencing now with a laptop with only USB ports and no serial ports to take the GPS cable.

I managed to get hold of a ATEN USB-Serial converter 9USB to 9 pin RS-232 Serial converter).

I sweated over that mother for hours to no avail. I installed & uninstalled and re-installed the software driver a zillion times - still no go at all.

I was just about to give it a miss when for whatever reason I decided to look under COMM ports in the device manager instead of USB ports/devices.

Lo and behold the little sucker was in there. It had converted COMM port 4 to cyber USB port and not the other way round as I was looking for.

Just reset the preferences in Oziexplore and away we went.

Also it plays up something shocking if the GPS is connected to the laptop on bootup. I think it is an IRQ clash as the mouse goes spastic and can't be controlled.

Other than that it works really well.

Regards

Ken Robinson

THANKS MIKE FOR ASKING THE QUESTION I HAVE EXACT SAME SETUP AND WAS DEBATING HOW TO DO THIS WILL TRY WHAT KAREN SUGGESTS THANKS EVERYONE FOR INFO THIS HAS TO BE THE BEST SITE

Mike,
I went through the same thing a while back, see post: 2248
Go to the site http://domain.com/gpsoz.com.au (hope this link works)
I got a USB cable of them for my Meridian Gold and when i got the correct drives on disc from them no problems.
Got the cable and initial disc within 3 days, then got the updated driver disc about 2 dayds after i phoned them about the cable not working, very helpfull
Cheers
Shawn

Aaaaaaaaaaaagh;
shold be post: 22248