[Elecraft] K3 Firmware Updater under Linux / Wine

[Dick Dievendorff]

The Windows K3 Utility, like many Windows programs that obtain the machine's
inventory of serial ports, enumerates the registry values under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM.

In an upcoming revision the utility will not display entries whose names are
"winachsf0" which seems to correspond to internal modems in laptops.

An alternative way of inventorying available serial ports is to attempt to
open them all, from COM1 through COM255.  I didn't choose that technique.

Dick, K6KR


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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware Updater under Linux / Wine



R. Kevin Stover wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
I had the same problem with my own software. Fortunately, as I wrote it, I
was able to fix it. The problem has nothing to do with the actual
communication but is to do with the way Windows software enumerates
available serial ports. I don't know how others do it, but mine looks for
certain registry entries. You can create symlinks between COM1 and
/dev/ttyS0 etc to make the serial ports available under Wine, but Wine does
not create these entries in the registry, and current versions won't let you
add them using regedit either. 

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