On Tue, 12 May 2009 15:56:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:24 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>> Skimming through Fedora's routine updates, one day not long ago, I
>> noticed the string "garmin" -- and just now thought to try one more
>> time to make one of my GPSs (all of which are Garmins) talk to my
>> legacy proprietary map software under Wine.
>>
>> IT DID IT!
>
> Perhaps you'd like to share the details. I also have a Garmin and
> wouldn't be averse to trying it.
Gladly. I'm currently running wine-1.1.15-1.fc10.i386; some
months back, and before the latest updates, I had gotten both
Garmin' MapSource and Topo US 2008 to install, launch, and run --
to do everything, in fact, *except* make the all-important
connection to any GPS. (I have a poor man's little yellow Etrex,
an Etrex vista (the old one, from ca. 1998, *not* H nor C nor X),
and a pair of Rino 120s.)
Just now, with my old Garmin cable plugged into the
serial port on the back of this main machine, I tried once more,
first launching MapSource, and then connecting and starting a
rino. It found it at once -- something it had never been able to
do -- with the preference tab for transfers set to auto.
In fact, it actually transferred all my waypoints,
routes, and tracks; but I decided the routes and most of the
tracks were no use any more, and deleted them (from the PC, not
from the GPS).
I had similar results with my old Maptech software for the
Appalachian Trail, and failure with DeLorme TopoUSA 6.0, which I can't
seem to get to install under Wine at all. I also own an old set of CDs
from Topo.com, and some other DeLorme stuff, but haven't tried them again.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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