Thanks for the info. I went ahead and bought a $250 Compaq laptop running Windoze 2000 and mounted that in my truck. I cleaned out all of the other stuff, so the laptop is now basically a dedicated Map Display. Works fine and no problems. Hated to do it, being a Linux guy for several years, but business is business. Cheers, Dave Beartooth wrote: > >>> I've tried using a couple of these Linux applications on my eTrex Legend >>> GPS. It has a serial port cable for loading and downloading. Nothing >>> seems to be able to communicate with the GPS unit, either running >>> EasyGPS >>> under Wine or the others directly under Linux. The unit and software >>> and cable work fine with a Win98 box I have in the work shop. >>> >>> So, my conclusion is that there is no usable Linux or Wine-compatible >>> software which will talk to the Garmin family in a productive manner. > > That can be done. See three threads here, dated March 12 & 13 of this > year, starting with "Mappery..." > > Nutshell : With a lot of work and a lot of help from savvier people, I got > both the etrex vista and the rino 120 to connect with MapSource, and also > with Maptech's Terrain Navigator (which I like a lot better) -- once each. > > Then I lost it again; and FC5 has made CrossoverOffice harder to use, so > far, than FC4 did. So I've left the whole project pretty much in abeyance > till the software changes again -- or somebody with substantially more > savvy than me takes it up. One of you already in this thread might be that > person. > > My results, and the way I got them, are scattered among several lists, > wherever I could get help with one piece or another; leads to them are > offered in the posts I mentioned. > > If any of you want to work on this and don't find something, or have any > questions about what you do find, I'll be glad to offer what help I can. I > want this project to succeed all the time and with ease, intensely; and > I'm sure it will, sooner or later; but I'm still not up to it, or its > user-friendliness isn't down to my level yet. > > Strength to your arms! > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Study History - Know the Future _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
