Thread: Possible help for USB Earthmate and Routis/IGuidance

Thanks for posting that. I dl'd and installed the new drivers. I can now run Routis and connect to the Earthmate without crashing my PC. However, I still have trouble receiving any satellites. Street Atlas will lock on in less than 30 sec, but Routis won't track any sats.

I try it, but the moment I select the comport where the driver is, the computer just reboot. This driver is not new.

Well cross you finger and wait for Curiosity to update the Xport program with Hibernate problem. I try GPSgate but I don't like it because the computer did hibernate but not power down.

"I've updated my earthmate drivers and have been able to use routis flawlessly with my earthmate usb gps."

Oh man, that's such good news. I wasn't even going to try it until I read that. I'll give it a shot today and let everyone know the results....

Whelp, didn't work for me. Actually now it just hangs at the "warning" splashscreen and won't even go into the software. I'm going to uninstall it and reinstall it and see if it helps.

If you go to Delorme site and purchase there serial cable you will never have problems again.. You won't be using any drivers at all... They make a serial cable for your Earthmate, which sends a standard NMEA signal to your machine... No hibernation, driver compatability issues again.. Nothing to install, just plug into serial port and set the com port... I paid like 25 bucks for the cable on there site and it works perfect with every GPS software on the market, that supports NMEA GPS receivers, which is all of them..

Nope. I reinstalled it and chose the appropriate com port, but alas, no device detected. The device is showing up in the com ports in device manager, and the drivers are loaded properly. (sigh)