On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:51:11 -0500, BeartoothHOS wrote:
> I run Fedora 14 Linux, but own a couple of older Garmin GPSs, and suites
> of map software from Garmin, Delorme, and others. Under Wine it has long
> been possible to install and run some brands of software, but not to get
> any of it to exchange data with the old GPSs -- which are built to use
> serial ports.
>
> Now I have VirtualBox, with XP installed under it, and both
> Garmin MapSource and TopoUS2008, as well as Delorme TopoUSA 6.0
> installed an running on the virtual XP. But I *still* can't get either
> of them to recognize my serial port. (Yes, I do have one, on a purpose
> built new PC, as well as on my older ones.)
>
> Has anyone licked this glitch yet?
I tried asking on one of the lists at news.grc.com; was asked
whether the virtual XP was seeing the COM (serial) port, looking under
the device manager. Turned out it thought COM1and COM2 were busy, but let
me create a COM3. Now both Delorme and the Garmin software do talk to my
old GPSs.
Delorme and Garmin don't talk to one another. But when I found a
back road I wanted on Delorme that wasn't on Garmin, I made a route of
it, uploaded that into a GPS, and downloaded it to Garmin.
To the woods! To the woods!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
What do they know of country, who only country know?
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