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Permalink Reply by Cynthia F. on June 6, 2009 at 7:11pm

It works, but will not work with 64 bit windows vista, windows 7 64 bit. I have also gotten it to work in linux. :) Are you using 64 bit windows vista?

Permalink Reply by Gerry on June 6, 2009 at 8:17pm

I have a laptop running Kubuntu 9.04. I would be most interested to hear how you got Carelink to run in linux.

Permalink Reply by Cynthia F. on June 6, 2009 at 8:19pm

I'm heading to bed before the baby wakes up which will be early

I can give the same directions that worked for Ubuntu 9.04 - just change the repositories - :) I'll have something for you in the morning :) it's 11pm est right now

Permalink Reply by Tracy on September 17, 2009 at 12:21pm

Hi there,

I would also be very interested in the process of getting the system working on Linux.

I have managed to get the login screen via firefox + altering the useragent sent by the browser, but cannot get past the vbscript portions of the login process.

I also attempted to run ies4linux however it seems to have become a tad stale and fails with more recent versions of wine. Once I had IE installed I was unable to fool the far end site into thinking the system met the OS requirements (Browser was reporting win98 instead of 2k+)

Anyone else have any ideas or see something I was missing?

Dave
(Partner of the Tracy)

Permalink Reply by Geoffrey Steinman on June 6, 2009 at 7:42pm

if nobody here can help you, try calling the minimed support ream (but i have a feeling they'll tell you "too bad, so sad")

Permalink Reply by Gerry on June 6, 2009 at 8:16pm

I'm running Carelink in 32-bit Vista. I had to call MiniMed software customer service, but they were really very helpful and walked me through the process. It's fairly complicated but you only have to install once. Give them a call!

Permalink Reply by Brendan Flanagan on June 6, 2009 at 9:36pm

Thats Great Guys
Thanks a mill

Permalink Reply by Julie on December 15, 2009 at 7:34am

The minimed rep at my son's endo office said there "should" be a carelink compatible with Vista 64 bit after the first of the year.
*holds breath*

Permalink Reply by Melissa Cipriani on December 21, 2009 at 11:43am

I don't have Vista, bu I've had the same problem with XP. My Dell Vostro 1710 does not recognize the device... Bummer :(

Permalink Reply by anita Rixon on January 9, 2010 at 10:18pm

try going to tools on internet explorer and internet opions, security, and untick the enable protected mode, then close windows explorer and try to load your carelink software that was what the problem was with mine on windows vista the problem with that is you have to tick it once finshed then untick it when you want to go back onto it. i had the database error also so hopely this will help. please let us know how you go.