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.
Copy data from XP to same app under Wine??
Copy data from XP to same app under Wine??
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Beartooth <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-pa ... 54483.html
--
-Austin
Does it connect over USB? You might try the iPod patches, see: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.
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-pa ... 54483.html
--
-Austin
-
Beartooth
Copy data from XP to same app under Wine??
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:22:02 -0600, Austin English wrote:
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.
Thanks for the quick reply!Does it connect over USB? You might try the iPod patches, see:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-pa ... 54483.html
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.
Copy data from XP to same app under Wine??
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Beartooth <[email protected]> wrote:
USB driver support, which is mostly wanted for iPod support, but also
may fix your issue.
--
-Austin
Does the GPS connect to the computer over USB? The patchset enablesOn Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:22:02 -0600, Austin English wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!Does it connect over USB? You might try the iPod patches, see:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-pa ... 54483.html
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.
USB driver support, which is mostly wanted for iPod support, but also
may fix your issue.
--
-Austin
-
Beartooth
Copy data from XP to same app under Wine??
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:03:43 -0600, Austin English wrote:
[....]
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.
[....]
Oho! *That's* the term I didn't follow.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.
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.
