[Elecraft] K3 Firmware Updater under Linux / Wine

[Dick Dievendorff]

MSDN documents that function as being available on Windows 2000 and up.  I'm
supporting Windows 98 SE. YMMV

I'm using exactly the technique that the .Net frameworks uses, for similar
reasons.

Dick


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Simon Brown (HB9DRV)
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:58 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware Updater under Linux / Wine

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.
> 
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