Raymarine NMEA BRIDGE Specifications download pdf (Page 12)

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USB Driver installation

Depending on the operating system of the computer, it might be necessary to install a

driver software. The bridge is using a standard FTDI USB serial converter chip.

Drivers for this chip can be found on the CD and on the FTDI webpages.

(http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm)

Linux

A reasonable modern LINUX system does not need a special driver installation.

The FTDI chip will be recognized and the system will provide a new serial port.

Usually this is /dev/ttyUSB0. If there is already another USB-serial converter attached to

your system, the new port will be /dev/ttyUSB1 or /dev/ttyUSB2 etc. .

Windows

On a MS-Windows system, it might be necessary to install the driver software. If there is

already some other devices using FTDI chips, this driver will be available already.

Otherwise the driver has to be installed. You'll find the driver software on the CD in the

subdirectory /DRIVERS.

The bridge has a standard FTDI USB chip. There are drivers for every version of MS-

Windows available on the FTDI website.

USB Com Port assignment

MS-Windows assign a COM port automatically.

In order to find out which port has been assigned, please check the MS-Windows device

manager.

In the device manager you'll find “Ports – COM & LPT “.

In this example, windows has put the SeaTalk NMEA bridge on COM4

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