[Elecraft] K3 Firmware Updater under Linux / Wine

[R. Kevin Stover]

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This is correct.

I banged my head against this for a month or so trying to get MixW work
with Wine/Debian. I'd manually enter the serial port info only to have
it erased. The windows API, more correctly the Wine implementation of
the WinAPI, doesn't know /dev/ttyS0 from Sunday. It doesn't know how to
translate /dev/ttySx to COMx.

Probably better to keep a Winders machine around till the Linux app is
finished.

Toby Deinhardt wrote:
| Hallo Julian,
|
|
|> could be made a bit less strict in this area to allow its use under
|> Linux /
|> wine?
|
| Afaik, using a Wine/Linux combo is likely to be a problem because the K3
| utility reconfigures the serial port as needed. I'm fairly sure that
| this is not easily doable, when running Wine. Wine is not a 100%
| implementation of the windows APIs. You might have more luck using a
| virtual computer, e.g. VMware, VirtualBox,  etc. Maybe this will help
| <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines>.
|
| Elecraft did anounce that there will be a pure Linux version of the
| tool, so eventually you will not need to Windows or MacOS for updating
| your K3.
|
| vy 73 de toby
| _______________________________________________


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