I'm assuming that having IE installed should help with that. When I did this, I hadn't installed ie6 yet, and it popped up a dialog asking me which app to run for "https:". Then it will attempt to run, and it seems to work. Answer the usual questions and it should install fine. * Then "cd /media/INTERNAL" and launch "wine InstallTomTomHOME.exe". (Legal Disclaimer: make sure you meet the Legal requirements of each license before accepting it.) Approve everything and let it install in the default ways. Occasionally you should see Windows-like dialogs popping up asking you to approve licenses and such. If it looks like it has hung at some stage, give it at least 5-10 minutes before you attempt to kill it. That will download and install several freely-available software packages from Microsoft and may take a while. * Run winetricks as your regular user (not root) to install some support libraries: (More information on winetricks can be found on this page). Put it somewhere in your path, and do a "chmod +x winetricks" to make it executable. * Download the current version of winetricks: If I hadn't gone into systemsettings/Wine with a clean installation, I'm guessing I'd have had to add /media/INTERNAL manually. The only reason I mention this is because when I then went into the Wine part of "systemsettings" (under the Advanced tab), it saw /media/INTERNAL and mapped it to the D: drive. * Having previously installed the winehq verison of wine (which seems to be broken), I did a "complete removal" uninstall and re-installed from Hardy Updates. * When I plugged it into the USB port and told it to connect to the computer, it auto-mounted on /media/INTERNAL. I think I've almost managed to get the HOME software running under Wine on Kubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron). ![]() ![]() OK, well my Refurbished TomTom ONE 3rd Edition arrived from yesterday. (I'm not connected with them either, except as a customer.) is selling refurbished TomTom's at 70% off today only. What percentage of Linux users do you think would be unable to use that solution? 10%? 20%? Of the 1-2% linux desktop portion of the market? Of course, I would be in that group, but I can't imagine that it would be a hugely significant portion of their overall market. * - Note that for them a reasonable workaround is: borrow someone else's PC. That said, hopefully linux-based netbooks might help push the numbers in our favor. But when it comes to limited development resources and priorities, which do you think ranks higher: fixing important bugs in the Windows/Mac software, adding new features to help sell the product, or supporting a niche platform for which there MAY be workarounds* anyway? They actually seem like a fairly open company (compared to Garmin), and they've definitely shown willingness to consider a Linux port. Naturally they're going to support the most popular platforms first. (Disclaimer: I have no connection or inside knowledge about the company, but I've worked for enough small companies to know how their resources are usually allocated.) Tom Tom is not en enormous company, and you'd probably be surprised at how few developers they have. I will advice my friends not to buy tom tom.Chill out. It is utter lack of respect for the customers that tom tom is not willing to release software for the linux user. I feel that this will be small job of configuration to make the pc pretend that it is a GPRS capable telephone. This is a good news in our research and I wish you, guys, also get there to help us find solution. At least models: Tom Tom GO300, GO500, GO700, RIDER, ONE, ONE (EDR version), and I presume that my GO930 also use it but as it is brand new model they forget to mention it. I found, this morning, that the bluez, bluetooth application that come from the box in Ubuntu 8.10, is the one TomTom use to connect to devices. I'll try to find out about that soon and if you also want to check that this is the link to the page: There is howto, little outdated and for rpm (fedora) but still we can have an idea about the way. ![]() Making your PC pretending that it is a GPRS capable telephone connected over bluetooth. As far as I know it's not possible to make it work under Wine properly but there is another way maybe we could do it. I also own TomTom GO930 and would like to make it work with Linux.
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