On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:22:02 -0600, Austin English wrote: > >> Does it connect over USB? You might try the iPod patches, see: >> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-May/054483.html > > Thanks for the quick reply! > > Is that the right URL?? It's about iPod something, as you say -- > and that right there bewilders me. > > Maybe it's me : I don't do sound on computers, and have never > seen reason to so much as find out what an iPod is. (Something between a > cell phone and a transistor radio, isn't it? I can't get any radio here > that I want within my hearing, and keep my cell phone turned off except > to call out -- very rarely.) So I can't imagine what it has to do with > GPS waypoints .... > > But maybe there's some other way, if a CD and sneakermail are > harder than they sound. > > There are four Fedora 10 PCs on my desk, all behind a USB KVM > switch, and all on my LAN; one of them has the additional XP hard drive, > which I suppose may be on the LAN, too. I can boot that machine, of > course, to either OS, but not both at once, afaik. All of them have Wine > or can get it. > > The XP laptop (a T42 Thinkpad) is also on my desk, and I suppose > on the LAN, though not presently behind the KVM switch. (It picks up my > wireless connection -- sometimes -- and certainly uses an ethernet cable > from a hub inside my router.) > > I have Samba installed on (I think) all my Fedora machines; if > not, I can install it in minutes. I just haven't ever had occasion to use > it. (I literally boot to XP *only* for the map software, and for only as > long as I have to. If I want a screenshot of a map I've made, I email it > to myself : inefficient, no doubt, but free of a learning curve.) > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, cantankeroous curmudgeon > Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. > > > Does the GPS connect to the computer over USB? The patchset enables USB driver support, which is mostly wanted for iPod support, but also may fix your issue. -- -Austin
