On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With snarls and curses and gnashing of teeth, I still keep one > laptop and one dual-bootable PC hard drive with XPProSP2 installed. > (Everything else is Fedora 10.) > > I do so purely for one class of apps, proprietary map software. > > Wine can now install and run at least one, and the most > important, of the four suites of such apps that I have. (That one is > Garmin MapSource, including Topo US 2008. XP <gnash> also runs Delorme, > Maptech and topo.com.) > > The one thing Wine can't do yet, afaict, is get the software to > talk to my GPSs. XP of course does; I just hate running it. > > The Garmin mapware is useful under Wine for many things; but it > would be a lot more so if I could at least get the data I have added so > far to it into the Wine installation. > > Could this be done? I know nothing of actually connecting M$ > machines to linux ones; but could I perhaps burn a CD on one of the XP > machines, and then read it with Wine and copy that data in?? > > If so, how? > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert > Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. > > > Does it connect over USB? You might try the iPod patches, see: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-May/054483.html -- -Austin
