Re: Mappery : TRIUMPH at last, at long, long last
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:09:13 +0000, I Beartooth had written:
Followups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
I'm presently running four PCs, two thinkpad laptops (a T30 and a
T42), and an EeePC (which doesn't come into this). Everything but my #1
PC is running Fedora 11, and all of them have some version of Garmin
Mapsource MetroGuide and TopoUSA2008. Most of them also have DeLorme
TopoUSA6, Maptech's Appalachian Trail suite, or both.
[....]
Anybody have a guess -- or a way to find out -- why the same
software connects to the same GPSs on two machines, but not on four
others??
Well, meseems I'm a fool, if not a triple-damn-fool -- but a
mighty happy one (in the end).
The denouement started when I had occasion (in the otherwise
irrelevant thread in fedora.general about a washed-out [id est, faded]
display) to shutdown and reboot all four PCs.
When I rebooted #1, after the upgrade to F11, I thought to let it
boot to XP and check the map suites there. They failed. I supposed the
cybergods had slipped a nasty knife between my ribs. Not so. Blessed be
their names!
Finally I thought to check my cablery. Sure enough, the one I'd
been testing with ran to #2, and one that had gotten buried in the
paperstorm was on #1.
I straightend that out. Lo! and Behold!, not only #1 but now #2
do immediately find the GPSs -- and the transfers finish as slick as a
whistle.
Calloo, callay! Champagne is *strongly* indicated -- and so is my
best single malt. After nearly eleven years' wait, I may go buy a bottle
of rich man's champagne. And the last vestige of M$ will disappear off
the dual boot drive, and out of my house, forthwith.
All regulars on these lists are invited to help celebrate -- in
person, should ye happen to pass nigh Blacksburg.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I think I just found out where up is.