EM-406A Thinks its a Mouse?

GPS/GNSS Development Boards
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Hi All,

I have just bought an EM-406A GPS Module and a USB evaluation board. Got it all to work fine, and was writing some interfacing software which all appeared to work until I started to modify the comms settings in the module. It started behaving a little odd, so I thought I would reboot it, by pulling out the USB cable. WHen I plugged it back in again, it installed itself as a mouse and now moves my pointer all over the place clicking at random until I disconnect it again!?!

Also the LED on the GPS module no longer illuminates.

If I look at Device manager it still pops up as a Serial Port so something odd is going on…

Any ideas?

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Also just tried it without the GPS module attached and the mouse behaves sensibly? Can the GPS module control what the evaluation board installs itself as?

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I have had this problem with other USB devices. If the USB device is on, and spitting out data on the port, and you plug it in to the [windows] computer, the data coming out of the port interferes with the Q&A process the OS uses to find out what driver to load for the device. Curiously, my case, which is completely different, also resulted in “mouse kidnapping”.

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I too have had the same problem. I can temporarily solve it by going into the device manager, going to the mouse section, and disabling the one causing the new one that has appeared. But after a couple reboots/unplugs I normally have to do this again. Very annoying.

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Cheers guys, All I needed to do was disconnect the EM-406A while I connected the eval board to the PC… Simple when you know how!

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I have been able to work around stupid USB caching, mouse take-over, and devices not detected issues with this software:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

The guy’s got a lot of other nice tools; browse around. With the one I linked above, you can quickly cleanup old drivers, uninstall drivers, and verify whether or not a device was detected by Windows and the driver was loaded. In my mouse take-over issue, Windows would subsequently “remember” the device as a mouse so it would always take over my cursor after the first time. I deleted its “driver” with this program and the next time I plugged it in re-installed the proper ones.