[MacBurg]

Hi All,

I have a custom setup in my car including an 8" touch screen up front, all cables run under the carpet and come out under the front passenger seat. I used to run my windows laptop in the car, and had it run all my music, GPS navigation, and OBD II tuning.

Now I have a MBP and have XP running under Bootcamp, so that I can run mapping software and a few other XP only apps. Today I tried plugging the MBP into the car, I had no trouble getting the screen to display on the 8" LCD, but the mapping software, Memory Map, couldn't locate the external USB GPS. Usually on the windows laptop you go into GPS settings and select which Com Port the GPS is plugged into, but no matter which one I tried, it still couldn't see the GPS.

So I am wondering if there is an equivalent to "COM Ports" on the mac? Or a utility that shows what is plugged in to where, or if there is a numbering system to the connections on the MBP.

Any help would be appreciated, I'll have another play around tomorrow.

[P]

Lots of questions at once... If you want an old style serial port (they have names like COM1, COM2 etc in Windows) there are any number of USB to serial converters, usually in the form of hubs. Keyspan makes several the work with Macs, but if you only want XP driver support, you probably have more options.

That won't help you if the GPS is over USB though. Perhaps an update to the Memory Map program for USB support is what you need?

You can see which port something is connected to using System Profiler (in Applications/Utilities) or Device Manager under Windows (found under Manage on My Computer).

[MacBurg]

Hey thanks for the reply, system profiler is the one I was looking for. Memory Map supports USB, everything used to work fine on the windows laptop, it was just a matter of selecting which port it was plugged into. I havent had a chance to do any more testing, but will this afternoon, when in windows I'll open device manager and try to figure out what port is what.