The various utilities get their inventory of serial ports from the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/DEVICEMAP/SERIALCOMM. Device drivers install values here in Windows.
Dick, K6KR On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:03, Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote: > * On 2011 12 Apr 08:36 -0500, Mike Markowski wrote: >> Thanks, Nate. I'm lucky enough to have a real serial port, so no usb issues >> to >> worry about. Also, the utility to open up transmit for MARS ran fine under >> Wine. It's just the K144XV and K3 utilities that don't pick up the serial >> port. >> Numerous other ham related programs are successfully using /dev/ttyS0, so >> it's >> very likely a Wine configuration problem (though the directions are pretty >> simple!) >> >> Since it sounds like your Wine set up is working, can I ask what you had to >> do? >> As I read the directions, I only have to: >> >> $ cd ~/.wine/dosdevices >> $ ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1 >> >> and then run Wine. Yet, the utilities show no serial port! Frustrating. > > There was a bug report in the Wine BTS from long ago that attempted to > fix some things in Wine's serial port implementation. As I recall, the > issue was that the ports do not show in the registry in the same manner > as they do under Windows. Unfortunately, I don't think the patch ever > became a part of Wine as my follow ups on my systems showed that the > ports still did not show and suggested work-arounds did not work for me. > > As the source for the programs is not available, it's difficult to > determine (at least for someone not familiar with Windows) just how the > serial ports are searched for and found. Perhaps it is possible that > they are using some method not supported by Wine. Such is the downside > of closed source software. :( > > 73, de Nate >> > > -- > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
