GPS interfacing under W2K

[Fly Stimulator]

Any clues as to what I need to do to get Windows 2000 to talk to a GPS across a serial port link?

I have a dual-boot machine with W98 and W2K. With the former everything is fine, with the latter it refuses to recognise the GPS (a Garmin 196).

I know that W2K exerts more control over how applications talk to the serial ports, but is there something I can do to get this to work? It's a bit of a chore having to shut everything down and re-boot just to upload a route.

The particular applications I'm using are Navbox (with the Garmin 196 updates loaded) and the Garmin software revision application. In each case all is well under 98, but not under W2K.

Thanks.

[ORAC]

G7toWin (http://home.attbi.com/~g7towin/)

Garmin Programmer Update - 19 Sep 02 (http://www.garmin.com/support/download.html)

[Fly Stimulator]

ORAC,

Thanks for the G7toWin link - a handy little program.


My problem turned out to be simple, once I'd found what it was!

I have Microsoft ActiveSync running to synchronise my PDA with my PC, and it was that which was messing up the serial port comms. Once I killed its process (wcescomm.exe) everything was fine. I only have it installed under W2K, not W98, hence the difference.