[Wine] Mappery : uncertain Thinkpads (Repost?)

[Beartooth]

	Followups set, hesitantly, to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general

	I thought I had posted this to both these groups, but my 
newsreader doesn't show it in either.

	I have three Garmin GPSs (an Etrex Vista and two Rino 120s), 
which I want to use under Fedora 11 Linux with four PCs, and two IBM-
reconditioned Thinkpads, T30 & T42.

	Garmin software suites (Metroguide USA and Topo US 2008) are 
installed on all the computers; both of them launch and run under Wine on 
all six. Both of them also connect, consistently, to the GPSs from the 
PCs.

	*Sometimes* they also connect to the GPSs from the laptops -- and 
sometimes nothing I can think of makes the transfers work (or the laptops 
even see the GPSs, for that matter). (I'm not just misremembering. There 
are many waypoints, as well as a few routes and tracks, on the laptops 
now, which have to have come from the GPSs.)

	The cables I have, bought new from Garmin, all require a serial 
port on the computer end. The PCs have such a port, as does the T30; for 
the T42 I have something that calls itself a "Cardbus to Serial Port 
Adapter," which uses a little 10" cable with an ethernet plug on one end 
for the card, and a male serial plug on the other, which accepts the 
Garmin cables.

	My guess is that there is something funny in either the F11 
install or the Wine install on the laptops, since all the GPSs and cables 
work well in at least some places.

	Can anyone suggest a way to find the problem??
-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.