I have Garmin's topo map software for the USA, 2008 version, and also a very old MapSource MetroGuide (ca. 1998) installed under wine. All is well -- except the biggest thing. Neither program can detect the etrex vista nor the rino 120, using Garmin's cables. The topo couldn't before I added the road maps,so that's not the trouble. Both, on the other (<shudder> XPProSP2 <shudder>) hard drive of the selfsame machine detect both perfectly well -- as do DeLorme, topo.com, and maptech software -- so the hardware isn't the problem, either. The cables use the serial port. My suspicion is that wine isn't telling the software about that. How do I make it do it?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
Beartooth wrote:> > The cables use the serial port. My suspicion is that wine isn't > telling the software about that. How do I make it do it?? > >http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to-configure#AEN407
Beartooth wrote:> Hmmm .... I'm probably being very stupid about that tilde. Fwiw, > I got wine by yum install, iirc. My .wine is in /home/btth ; I get : > > [root at localhost ~]# cd /home/btthIndeed. NEVER EVER use system as root! http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014 And "~" you just type it as is. It will be auto expanded in shell into your home dir.
Beartooth wrote:> [btth at localhost dosdevices]$ ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1Why the ttyS0? Is it really serial port? If it's USB->Serial, then it should be ttyUSB0.
Beartooth wrote:> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:45:00 -0500, vitamin wrote: > > > > Beartooth wrote: > > > > > [btth at localhost dosdevices]$ ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1 > > > > > > > Why the ttyS0? Is it really serial port? If it's USB->Serial, then it > > should be ttyUSB0. > > > > Yes, it really is, precisely because of these cables; my > experience with the little conversion gadgets has not been encouraging.You didn't answer the question. Are you really connecting this device to a serial port on your PC? Or a USB port?
Beartooth wrote:> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:49:36 -0500, vitamin wrote: > > > vitamin wrote: > > You didn't answer the question. Are you really connecting this device to > > a serial port on your PC? Or a USB port? > > > > Sorry, I thought I did. The end of the cable at the PC has > several pins in a trapezoid, and screws on both sides; it's also several > times bigger than a USB port, and by no means flat. > > To use it (rarely, but sometimes) with a T42 Thinkpad, which I > bought without realizing it lacked a *serial* port, I had to buy a > special card, which has a very short cable like an ethernet cable plug at > one end, and a gadget with pins and screws on the other.Ok sounds like a PC-Card with a standard 9-pin serial port on it. I'm asking because it's hard to guess which port is your device connected to. Then it should be com1 (ttyS0) unless you have some "hidden" ones, like modem for example. You might want to check with some hardware information program what all serial ports you have.