[Wine] How to make Garmin see Garmin?

[James McKenzie]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:06:31 -0500, dimesio wrote:
>
>   
>> Beartooth wrote:
>>     
>>> 	The cables use the serial port. My suspicion is that wine isn't
>>> telling the software about that. How do I make it do it??
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to-
>>     
> configure#AEN407
>
> 	Hmmm .... I'm probably being very stupid about that tilde. Fwiw, 
> I got wine by yum install, iirc. My .wine is in /home/btth ; I get :  
>
> [root at localhost ~]# cd /home/btth
>   
Ouch!  Never run Wine as root.  This can cause a number of problems, one
being that .wine will not function properly.


> [root at localhost btth]#  ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1
>   
Again, try another comX port like com3.  com1 may already exist and
cannot be destroyed/created in this manner.

James McKenzie