Eee PC 901 Com Ports

Using XP, been thru the ASUS site can not find anything there, will try the Eee PC forum and see what I can find out.

Control panel/System/Hardware/device manager/ ports.

Click on one of the names showing and then advanced/and the com port number in the box and it will show you all the ports and which are in use.

Hi Graham, my problem is that after I go into Device Manager and the list comes up ex.. Batteries- Computer-Disk drives it does not have Ports (COM & LPT) just put a question on EeePC forum to.

Cheers Bruce.

HI Bonz, yep hoping that with the new BU 353 it will work doing that. But at the moment I find it strange I can not find PORTS.
in Device Manger

Cheers Bruce

Chaz is on the money

The Control Panel/Hardware method will usually only show up already assigned ports. Once you plug your device in you will see it under this menu. You will also set/change your port from within your mapping software. As also mentioned a lot of mapping software will auto scan all ports for signal. Plenty of freeware port monitoring/assigning/sharing/splitting software out there.

Re your EEPC SD Card reader - buy a high speed/capacity (SDHC) class 6 card for the the SD card slot (cheap on Ebay) and you can use it as an extra removable hard disk. Reading/writing speeds are as good as the hard disk with no lag

Cheers

A

Thanks guys found it when I hooked up the Magellan but it did not want to find it (the Magellan) think it may be to old lol
The SD card in the reader sounds the go and could I have Ozi and my maps on it?

Cheers Bruce

Thanks Stephen, the EeePC does not have a dvd drive so I am hoping I can install the program on my external hard drive where I have Ozi. At the moment I am trying to see if I can get it to work with my Magellan Meridian Gold as I have not yet ordered th BU-353 from here of course.

Cheers Bruce

Bruce
I have just upgraded all of my in car mapping to a little Toshiba NB100 8.9 Notebook, Like yours it does not have a DVD drive and was a simple as 1,2,3. Copy and paste the full contents of the CD that you get to your full time Computer. Transfer via a flash drive or portable hard drive, then install the usual way.

That's all I did and no problems at all, working a treat.

Prior to buying the BU 353, I had a Garmin GPS18 USB mouse receiver, as well as my hand held Garmin GPS's. The GPS18 is crap compared to the BU 353 and it works instantaneous-they are unreal

Cheers

Stephen

Thanks Stephen

Great so far Zapper, have been using it mainly for internet via a Telstra Next G wireless moden.
And when I get my mapping sorted it will be even better.

Cheers Bruce