Mappery : uncertain success with Fedora/Wine/Garmin

[Tony Frame]

From: "Beartooth" <beartooth at comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, 30 June, 2009 3:09 AM
Subject: Mappery : uncertain success with Fedora/Wine/Garmin


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>    I'm presently running four PCs, two thinkpad laptops (a T30 and a
> T42), and an EeePC (which doesn't come into this). Everything but my #1 PC
> is running Fedora 11, and all of them have some version of Garmin
> Mapsource MetroGuide and TopoUSA2008. Most of them also have DeLorme
> TopoUSA6, Maptech's Appalachian Trail suite, or both.
>
>     On one laptop, the software not only doesn't launch, but crashes the
> whole machine -- after which I have to wait a   surprisingly long time
> before I can reboot.
>
>     On all the others, the Garmin software (but not the DeLorme) does
> launch and run. Iirc, on the other laptop it does also talk to my GPSs; it
> does not talk to them (nor even see them, alas!) on any of the three F11
> PCs -- that's why #1 is still running F10 instead of F11. #1 (only) also
> has a second hard drive, on which XPProSP2 is installed -- native OS for
> all the mapware suites. (I have another suite from Topo.com, sold by
> National Geographic, which I haven't tried lately.)
>
>    My installs/upgrades of F11 have been partly with media and partly
> with the new preupgrade command; both have sometimes bollixed things so
> badly that I eventually had to do a clean install; the preupgrade has also
> gone smoothly a couple of times.
>
>    The Fedora repositories now contain six or eight apps for Garmin, and
> more (with a lot of overlap) for GPSs in general; I have tried to install
> all of both on all machines. I don't know why the other three PCs can't
> see the GPSs.
>
>     If I find the reason and get them to do it soon, I'll upgrade all of
> PC #1 to F11, and have a house free of M$h!t again. If not, I'll try to
> preserve XP on its drive for another round...
>
> Anybody have a guess -- or a way to find out -- why the same
> software connects to the same GPSs on two machines, but not on four
> others??
>
>
>
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If  your GPSs are connected to the serial port it may be worth checking 
access rights to the serial ports are OK on the F11 machines.

It seems F11 has introduced the dialup group ... in F10 and earlier adding 
users who needed access to the serial port to the uucp group worked for my 
data logger comms program. On a machine recently upgraded to F11 I needed to 
add the user to the dialup group.

Regards
Tony