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    wwan card with onboard gps

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by cchoate, May 9, 2012.

  1. cchoate

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    Sierra MC8790 :)
     
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    Thanks guys, I just ordered a Gobi 2000. It will be interesting to see how well the GPS works using the two antennas that are in the TB.
     
    cchoate, May 12, 2012
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    Accuracy is pretty good, not down to 2-3 metres, but I'd say it's around 5-6 metre accuracy. Plenty good enough for route navigation anyway.
     
    Pinecone, May 13, 2012
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    Pinecone is right, it does navigation pretty well. It's not particulary fast at getting a cold fix, but other than that it does pretty well (I have to say I have the Ericsson f5521GW, but afaik they are pretty much the same when it comes to GPS performance).
     
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    I don't think the gps on gobi perform better than the stand alone GPS. It aquire/fix signal to long. Maybe you are already on your destination while the gps(gobi) still acquiring a fix signal. LOl..... :eek:


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    I have the gobi 2000 installed but the bios and device manager won't recognize it. The machine I'm using is a cf-52n mk3 that has an intel i5 processor. There is no dip switch so I'm guessing a bios update is needed?
     
    cchoate, May 15, 2012
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    If bios update is needed, does anyone know where I could find it?
     
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    I can get into the ftp site but every file I type (wwan, gobi 2000, SPGOBI2.zip) just comes back - There are no files or folders which matched your criteria. I must be doing something wrong or the all the files from the site have been removed.

    The tech support email bounced back at me also.
     
    cchoate, May 15, 2012
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    Thanks to the people who helped me with the bios, it now does recognize the wwan along with win7 (sort of). The next road block is to get the computer to see the gps part of the gobi 2000 card. In device manager it shows in ports as "HP un2420 HS-USB loader (com10)". No ? or ! through it so it installed correctly. It does not show up in network adapters or any other section for that matter and when I run the CSA program it says Gobi device not found. Anyone know the missing piece of this puzzle?
     
    cchoate, May 19, 2012
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    I still think it's impossible to use un2420 in Panasonic, because it's HP.
     
    BaRRmaley, May 21, 2012
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