[Elecraft] K3 Firmware Updater under Linux / Wine

[Simon Brown (HB9DRV)]

The very best way to determine the list of COM ports is to use 
GetDefaultCommConfig(). If you can get info, it exists, that's it.

There are more advanced solutions, these require functions in SETUPAPI.DLL 
such as SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo() and is not for the faint of heart. With this 
interface you can get all the information shown in the Device Manager applet 
including drivers and physical location.

Don't dig in the registry, this is not recommended, especially when 
documented interfaces exist.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Yep, that's the way I did it, too. That registry key does not exist under
> wine, and attempts to manually create it result in an error message.
>