[Elecraft] linux/wine for K144XV/K3 Utility

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2011 12 Apr 08:44 -0500, Brendan Minish wrote:
> I on the other hand have never had any issues with symlinking usb serial
> ports under linux, I have done it on several machines under several
> distros 
> thing to watch out for though is that in some distros these devices may
> be placed in a different group than the standard TTY devices by udev 

Well, you may well be correct.  As I run Debian, it would seem this
issue would be encountered by others.  Looking at the owner/group of the
files I see:

crw-rw---- 1 root dialout   4, 64 Apr 10 11:06 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout   4, 65 Apr 10 11:07 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout   4, 66 Apr 10 11:06 /dev/ttyS2
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout   4, 67 Apr 10 11:06 /dev/ttyS3
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188,  0 Apr 10 11:06 /dev/ttyUSB0

which show only major/minor device number differences as I would expect.
And my user is a member of the dialout group.

My dosdvices are as follows:

$ ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nate nate 10 Nov 30 18:17 com1 -> /dev/ttyS0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nate nate 12 Jan 15  2010 com5 -> /dev/ttyUSB0

I really should remove the link to com1 as that port is actually on
ttyS1 and dedicated to my weather station.

I use the Ubuntu Wine beta updates on my Debian boxes as the Debian
version of wine is quite old.  I've not tried using serial ports in Wine
for several releases so it's possible that it is fixed.  The latest
version of Wine I have installed is 1.3.17.

73, de Nate >>

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