[AlexN]

I've been playing around trying to get scope control working via the laptop, however I'm having a slight problem...

I have a port replicator for my laptop which has a LPT port and a serial port (which the laptop does not have without the replicator)

connect it all up, power on the mount, open the sky...

Telescope setup, using Celestron Nexstar GPS as stated in the EQ6 manual. select the com port, 9600 rate....

Establish connection.

Everything works up till this point... Connection is established, the sky goes into night vision mode.

I try to slew it anywhere, it tells me the slew is outside slew limits, if i tell it to slew there anyway, it gives me an error...

However, If I slew the mount via the hand controller, The sky has no problems showing me where the telescope is pointed... from alpha centauri to m83 to where ever i slew it via the hand controller, it shows the mounts movement between targets, and stops bang on the target I slewed the mount to, however I can not use the sky to slew the scope...

The fact that:
A. It establishes a connection
B. The Sky knows where the scope is pointing
Indicates that the serial port is working, and the computer and mount understand eachother.

The fact that I cant slew has me beat....

Any ideas?