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Do you know a supplier / manufactorer of a USB-GPS or a PCMCIA GPS ??

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Sony makes a unit which is pcmcia, and is actually an Etak receiver re-packaged.. you can get it here:
http://www.egghead.com/category/inv/00072375/02977001.htm
...or look at etak/sony's page here: (warning, ugly page:)
http://www.etak.com/skymap/

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need one for my VAIO C1XD as it has no ser port ...

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Ouch; I'm glad I went w/ a thinkpad 240:)




...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

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Because if I remember right, the Sony GPS units use a non-standard GPS protocal, excluding you from using that

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Actually, with the pcmcia version, you have the option of running it in the propriotery (sp) format, or as a standard gps..
-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

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Dionysus: Does the PCMCIA Card have a connector for an external antenna ??For me, it would work right now, even without an external ant, because GPS goes through the textile roof of my convertible, but still i would like the option if the reception is bad, or if i take it in my girlfriends car, which has a normal ( metal ) roof, so that the passenger's seat would NOT be okay for receiving GPS ...

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I'm honestly not sure... I saw that card when I was shopping for a gps, but didn't actually purchase it..
-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

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Anyone want to chime in with the Default Gateway lesson?
Is this just as easy, or do you realli need someone else to have this explained ?

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Well - basically, to give an over-semplified explanation, the default gateway is the machine that your computer will send packets to that it thinks are outside of the local subnet. SO, for instance, if 128.227.132.xxx (1-255) is your local subnet, then a packet going to 131.12.13.155 will be routed through the gateway machine, which hopefully knows where and how to route that packet.
-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

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When I try to sync with emplode, the machine attempts to dial-in to my ISP, and hangs.
I guess I have somehow have W98 set-up that whenever it needs a TSCP?IP session, it starts dialing.

Any idea where / how to change this?

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Try this - go to your control panel and double click on internet options. Click on connections, and check "Dial whenever a network connection is not present." that will force w98 to first check your network connection, then dial out if it can't find it on the local net...
-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

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Do you really think this is an emplode-problem? Didn't windows crash before emplode sometimes, too

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As I see it, "crash" wasn't the right word to use. What happens is that emplode attempts to open up a TCP/IP connection to the empeg. This particular setup of Win9x detects this as an attempt to access the internet (which my assumption is that Henno accesses the internet through a dial-up modem connection).

In fact, if you just let the dial-up networking connect to the Internet (instead of trying cancel), I am pretty sure that emplode would eventually time out or tell you it can't connect (at which point, you could disconnect from the Internet and not have to press the reset switch).

I interpret "crash" to mean that the system either reboots, freezes, or becomes unstable (often accompanied with an error message like a blue screen of death).

Kureg