On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:03:43 -0600, Austin English wrote: [....] > 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. Oho! *That's* the term I didn't follow. You have hit a troublesome trouble. No. All of the cables for my old GPSs have one or other of Garmin's special plugs on one end -- and a serial plug on the other. The little piece of hardware you can hide in your hand, meant to put between a serial plug and a USB port, is no help even under XP. The original serial plug works with XP if the computer still has a serial port -- but not with Wine (nor CXO, btw, last time I looked). The XP laptop, actually, has no serial port of its own. I had to get a special card, whose external end has what liiks like an ethernet port; with it comes a little hand-length cable with an ethernet plug on one end, and a serial port on the other. That *usually* works with XP -- not today, for instance, God knows why. And I don't seem to have a slot for the card on any of my other machines ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
