On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:05 PM, machiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Moreover, being a long-time user of Debian, I have always written to > companies and > asked for exactly what you have suggested, or similar. As we all know, we > usually > don't get positive or proactive responses. No "business case" is what we > usually > hear. Pfft. > > http://www.debiantutorials.org/no-dice.png > http://www.debiantutorials.org/communication1.png Bummer :( > Establishes it. Of course, I cannot mount /dev/gps0 because it's not a block > device (I'm looking...). And the webupdater utility still refuses to see the > device. > > What rials me is that I have read about successful mounts in Ubuntu with the > .27 > kernel. Grrrr. Although not with the model I have. However a Garmin > driver has > been part of the kernel for a while already. IIRC. > > Worst case is that I walk upstairs and boot my kids Vista install (they dual > boot > with Debian and never boot to ...vista, eww.) to accomplish this task, > but...I'd > rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon. This is Linux - there is a way! Sounds like a weird device. I imagine you'll need to reverse engineer the protocol if you want to be able to do it in Linux. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
