Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "balalajkin" Newsgroups: japan.comp.toshiba Subject: Toshiba e830w + Globalsat BT-338 connection problem Date: 5 May 2005 16:48:03 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1115336883.642198.68310@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.94.130.78 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1115336888 7264 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2005 23:48:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 23:48:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=203.94.130.78; posting-account=jVAuog0AAACMlm44Bhn6tjnr3sL1M-lb Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.comp.toshiba:27 I have the above setup (Toshiba e830w with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth + Globalsat BT-338 bluetooth GPS receiver. I am unable to extablish a stable connection between these two devices. While e830 discovers BT-338 and I can register a connection and assign the device to the com port 6, the connection status is always disconnected and satellite link test program that comes with BT-338 sees no GPS signal. Neither Destinator navigation software sees GPS signal. Said that I had few glimpses of success - within 4-hour tests and trials I established GPS link 3 times and the location shown on the screen was perfectly correct. Each time the link was established it was lost within a second and navigation software got no location update if I kept moving around the streets. I have tested e830 bluetooth feature successfully with my mobile phone (sony ericsson T630). It works flawlessly, allowing me to establiesh stable connection, download email and browse the Internet. I have also tested BT-338 with another bluetooth PDA (HP h4150) with the same BT-338 test utility and navigation software and it worked flawlessly as well. So there is no doubt that bluetooth features on both devices are functional and the problem is with either some settings or general bluetooth stack incompatibility. Any suggestion on how to fix it would be greatly appreciated.