Re: GPS

From: Sven, MVP-Mobile Devices (sejohannsen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:51:14 -0600

I assume you have the usb side of the usb to serial converter plugged into
the flight computer, do you not? For your suggestion to work, the GPS would
have to be a host and power the converter. I don't expect that this is going
to be possible. The converter is yet another slave device. 

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Sven, MS-MVP  Mobile Devices
"Damian Burrin" <burrin@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:84Otc.224$rj2.22@newsfe1-gui.server.ntli.net...
> >No, the iPAQ is a slave device on USB. A GPS is also a slave <device. One
> <slave device cannot talk to another slave device. See my web site <for
> <the choices that will work for you.
>
> Could this not be done with an usb to seriel convertor on the gps and then
> plugging the serial lead into null modem lead for the ipaq.
>
> I've got a gps running via a flight computer in a simular way.
>
> Damian
>
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> "Dale DePriest" <Dale@gpsinformation.het> wrote in message
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> > No, the iPAQ is a slave device on USB. A GPS is also a slave device. One
> > slave device cannot talk to another slave device. See my web site for
> > the choices that will work for you.
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > Dave Irving wrote:
> >
> > > I have bought an Ipaq 5550 and was wondering if there is anyway off
> getting
> > > a USB GPS module to work with this,
> > >
> > >
> >
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>

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