On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:09:13 +0000, I Beartooth had written: > 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. [....] > 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?? Well, meseems I'm a fool, if not a triple-damn-fool -- but a mighty happy one (in the end). The denouement started when I had occasion (in the otherwise irrelevant thread in fedora.general about a washed-out [id est, faded] display) to shutdown and reboot all four PCs. When I rebooted #1, after the upgrade to F11, I thought to let it boot to XP and check the map suites there. They failed. I supposed the cybergods had slipped a nasty knife between my ribs. Not so. Blessed be their names! Finally I thought to check my cablery. Sure enough, the one I'd been testing with ran to #2, and one that had gotten buried in the paperstorm was on #1. I straightend that out. Lo! and Behold!, not only #1 but now #2 do immediately find the GPSs -- and the transfers finish as slick as a whistle. Calloo, callay! Champagne is *strongly* indicated -- and so is my best single malt. After nearly eleven years' wait, I may go buy a bottle of rich man's champagne. And the last vestige of M$ will disappear off the dual boot drive, and out of my house, forthwith. All regulars on these lists are invited to help celebrate -- in person, should ye happen to pass nigh Blacksburg. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I think I just found out where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
