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Offline dupek

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USB GPS not working
« on: March 10, 2012, 01:34:21 PM »
I have no idea of what happen to my gps. It was working 2 days ago, and now do not "come on". I did full update from v11. To mine sup-praise, everything works fine, but the gps. I have gpsd installed. in hardware, does show as


Description: ‎USB-Serial Controller

Media class: ‎

Connection
Bus: ‎USB

Bus PCI #: ‎1

PCI device #: ‎3

Vendor ID: ‎0x067b

Device ID: ‎0x2303

Misc
Module: ‎pl2303

Does not shows in device notifier. The gps is usb based and use prolific driver.

Offline wayne1932

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Re: USB GPS not working
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2012, 02:17:52 PM »
What GPS receiver are you using?   I have a Delorme -20 that I have never been able to get working.  The only reason I keep a Win partition on my laptop. 
If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it!  If ya cain't fix it, ya gotta stand it.  If ya cain't stand it..............Visit the forum and search.

Offline dupek

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Re: USB GPS not working
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2012, 02:28:06 PM »
Mine is DU-355 by globalsat. Was working fine, but 2 days ago stopped working. The LED will not even come on.
When I plug it in winxp, I hear the ding, but the light will not come on and all my mapping software do not show this gps.
I guess, is time for new one.

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Solved:Re: USB GPS not working
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2012, 03:38:07 PM »
Well, the gps is working, but not in OpenCPN. The OpenCPN(old version) do not have Garmin option. Tested with other software (xgps) and did worked fine. I will have to wait, until never version will be available trough Synaptic.