Hello all, from a new member. I've been lurking and searching your highly informative site trying to figure out if I've scr*wed up trying to fit a traveling computer/GPS system together. I just bought an Acer Aspire One net book with the six cell battery, 160 gig drive and Windows XP. I normally use Linux but figured having a Windows computer might be useful for programs that only come in Windows versions. Boy, does this little computer ever remind me why I switched to Linux in the first place. How does anyone put up with Microsoft!
Anyway, the Aspire is a great little netbook, and the plan is to use it as a movie viewer on the flight over to France and then use Autoroute 2007 to navigate around. I have a Holux M1000 Bluetooth GPS receiver that I had bought previously. Searching the web, and this forum, I found a couple of people had tried to use this combination without any luck. This was worrisome. So, thanks to this forum, I located the trial version of MS Streets and Trips 2009, bought a Bluetooth dongle, and everything works fine. The dongle is a Cirago that I bought from Tiger Direct.ca for $27, that comes with the Toshiba Bluetooth stack. I installed the drivers for the GPS and the Bluetooth drivers, had to manually select the GPS for the dongle's driver (dead easy) clicked on the [details] button, noted that the address was Comm 40, and when I had opened Streets and Trips I clicked on configure GPS, was given a choice of comm ports, one of which was number 40, clicked on it, clicked on start GPS and a couple of seconds later I was informed that I was at home in Etobicoke. So at least I know that my set-up works with S&T2009. I can't see why it shouldn't work with a new edition of Autoroute 2007.
Anyway, I thought I'd post this in case anyone else has a Holus M1000 and is wondering if it will work with the little Acer and S&T.
TO Scootz (I own a Burgman 400 maxi-scooter, hence the name)
Anyway, the Aspire is a great little netbook, and the plan is to use it as a movie viewer on the flight over to France and then use Autoroute 2007 to navigate around. I have a Holux M1000 Bluetooth GPS receiver that I had bought previously. Searching the web, and this forum, I found a couple of people had tried to use this combination without any luck. This was worrisome. So, thanks to this forum, I located the trial version of MS Streets and Trips 2009, bought a Bluetooth dongle, and everything works fine. The dongle is a Cirago that I bought from Tiger Direct.ca for $27, that comes with the Toshiba Bluetooth stack. I installed the drivers for the GPS and the Bluetooth drivers, had to manually select the GPS for the dongle's driver (dead easy) clicked on the [details] button, noted that the address was Comm 40, and when I had opened Streets and Trips I clicked on configure GPS, was given a choice of comm ports, one of which was number 40, clicked on it, clicked on start GPS and a couple of seconds later I was informed that I was at home in Etobicoke. So at least I know that my set-up works with S&T2009. I can't see why it shouldn't work with a new edition of Autoroute 2007.
Anyway, I thought I'd post this in case anyone else has a Holus M1000 and is wondering if it will work with the little Acer and S&T.
TO Scootz (I own a Burgman 400 maxi-scooter, hence the name)
Hi TO Scootz, and welcome to the forum. Yes, if it works with Microsoft Streets & Trips it will work with Microsoft AutoRoute (or Microsoft MapPoint).
By the way, we are not too far from each other. You're in Etobicoke, and I'm up here in Richmond Hill.
By the way, we are not too far from each other. You're in Etobicoke, and I'm up here in Richmond Hill.
Thanks for the info, especially since I just ordered Autoroute. Yes, we're not too distant. My scooter club has a few members in Richmond Hill. I gather that there are a lot of Canucks on this site. It is based in Canada, is it not?
TO Scootz
TO Scootz
... a lot of Canucks, lot of Americans, lot of Europeans, people from Australia, New Zealand, South America, Africa, etc, etc. That's the beauty of the Internet. Borders don't matter. Where's the site based? On the Internet.
You can specify a lower number COM port with the Toshiba Bluetooth stack by using Custom Mode when you add a new connection. You will be able to choose from available low number COM ports.
Terry
Terry
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Originally Posted by tcassidy
You can specify a lower number COM port with the Toshiba Bluetooth stack by using Custom Mode when you add a new connection. You will be able to choose from available low number COM ports.
Terry
Terry
TO Scootz
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac
... a lot of Canucks, lot of Americans, lot of Europeans, people from Australia, New Zealand, South America, Africa, etc, etc. That's the beauty of the Internet. Borders don't matter. Where's the site based? On the Internet.
TO Scootz
Its easy to change the COM port. Just go into Bluetooth Settings (right click the Bluetooth icon in the Notification bar), delete your device and click on the New Connection button. Make sure your Holux is turned on, choose Custom Mode and Next>. After it finds and connects to your device you may need to enter the PIN (0000). You will get a screen about SPP and then a Select a COM port one. Uncheck Use default COM port and it will warn you about using the default. Click OK and select the drop down next to COM40 (make sure the Auto Connect box is checked!!). Select a COM port from the list and it will be set up. Don't forget to change the COM port in S&T to match.
BTW the latest Toshiba BT stack is available here. It works with all Toshiba BT devices, not just their laptops.
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/bluetooth/?page=download
Terry
BTW the latest Toshiba BT stack is available here. It works with all Toshiba BT devices, not just their laptops.
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/bluetooth/?page=download
Terry
I just updated my ASUS r2h UMPC (internal Toshiba BT device) from 6.10.07 to the latest on that site (6.30.01) to test it and everything seems ok. Make sure you ignore the computer while it is doing the update. It takes a while and gives a lot of strange messages about hardware failure. Take a break and ignore it until the restart request.
I'm not sure that the changes make a difference but why not have the latest version.
Terry
I'm not sure that the changes make a difference but why not have the latest version.
Terry