There are always other options than ones given by the maker of the mount. Lukily there have beeen people working on this day and night to help those that dont want to stuff around with the controllers.
Have a look here --->
http://eq-mod.sourceforge.net/index.htm
I am making the EQ direct version which should be finished this week. then the fun time of testing begins.
Ice if you just want tracking why not go the Syntrek version of the mount, I am using it and it works great, it also gives you the option of adding Autoguiding without hacking into the mount.