gps gate/grlevel 3 issues

[Josh VandenTop]

I'm having a problem with gps gate that when I try to creat a virtural com port 9 or lower when my usb modem is plugged in it will give me the error ([80] failed to create virtural serial port) It will create ports with higher number to run SpotterNetwork, ThreatNet, and mapping software and they all work fine. Has any one else had this issue, and does anyone have any solutions?

 

[Skip Talbot]

When you plug your devices into different USB ports, Windows re-installs the devices under different COM ports. What's probably happened is that Windows has consumed the first 9 COM ports, so you can't use them to create virtual COM ports in GpsGate. Go to your Device Manager which is located under System in the Control Panel. Under Ports you should see a list of devices and their associated COM port. You should be able to change the ports they are using there or uninstall ones your aren't using.

 

[Josh VandenTop]

Its looking like that will work, my sprint modem created 3 ports, but i've disable gps on the device, so I just had to disable one of those ports and It's working now, Thank you so much!!!

 

[Josh Richardson]

I'm having a problem with gps gate that when I try to creat a virtural com port 9 or lower when my usb modem is plugged in it will give me the error ([80] failed to create virtural serial port) It will create ports with higher number to run SpotterNetwork, ThreatNet, and mapping software and they all work fine. Has any one else had this issue, and does anyone have any solutions?

And what if there is nothing other than Port 6 being used? I have my device manager pulled up and under Ports the only thing used is Port 6 for my GPS unit. I have pretty much the same thing going as Josh said. If you were to open up GPS Gate and go to settings and then outputs, this is where you create a Virtual Com Port for GR3. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 all state "failed to create virtual serial port".

Im assuming this is the reason that when I go to GR and go into the GPS area there is no ports there to choose. Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts that would be great.

I happened to notice this when testing out a few things today before the chase season.

 

[Josh Richardson]

Forget the question, I had to reinstall GPS Gate earlier today and I forgot I needed to copy a driver over after the installation and one other step to make sure the 64 bit driver was installed. Works now!