Problem with 1710smi notebook serial port

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Dave Jackson - 12 Jul 2004 03:13 GMT

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I want to connect a GPS serial cable to the rear serial port on my
1710smi. The port seems to be configured as part of the touch pad/mouse
control system because when I plug in the cable the mouse pointer starts
random movements. How can I reconfigure the port to accept serial data
from the GPS?

TIA

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Frank Kemper - 13 Jul 2004 12:32 GMT

Dave Jackson <Black_453@hotmail.com> haute in die Tasten:

> I want to connect a GPS serial cable to the rear serial port on my
> 1710smi. The port seems to be configured as part of the touch
> pad/mouse control system because when I plug in the cable the mouse
> pointer starts random movements. How can I reconfigure the port to
> accept serial data from the GPS?

I had the same problem with an Acer and a Compaq under WinXP and
Win2000. I found out that the GPS receiver was recognized as "Micorsoft
Track Ball Input Device" Then I deleted this entry out of the hardware
configuration table in the system configuration menue (Sorry, I do not
know the original english terms as I use the german versions) Thereafter
the GPS receiver worked properly. I had a Garmin GPS 12, which uses the
common NMEA protocol.

Frank

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Dave Jackson - 13 Jul 2004 21:54 GMT

> Dave Jackson <Black_453@hotmail.com> haute in die Tasten:
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> Frank

Hi Frank

Thanks for your reply.
As soon as I had posted my query I decided to check the system/hardware
settings and bingo there was the trackball device listed - as you
describe I just disabled it and the serial port is working properly.

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