Mappery : uncertain success with Fedora/Wine/Garmin

[Tony Frame]

>>
>> Followups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
>>
>>    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

uhh ... dialout group not dialup