[Elecraft] linux/wine for K144XV/K3 Utility

[Dick Dievendorff]

The various utilities get their inventory of serial ports from the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/DEVICEMAP/SERIALCOMM. Device drivers install values here in Windows. 

Dick, K6KR

On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:03, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:

> * On 2011 12 Apr 08:36 -0500, Mike Markowski wrote:
>> Thanks, Nate.  I'm lucky enough to have a real serial port, so no usb issues to
>> worry about.  Also, the utility to open up transmit for MARS ran fine under
>> Wine.  It's just the K144XV and K3 utilities that don't pick up the serial port.
>> Numerous other ham related programs are successfully using /dev/ttyS0, so it's
>> very likely a Wine configuration problem (though the directions are pretty simple!)
>> 
>> Since it sounds like your Wine set up is working, can I ask what you had to do?
>> As I read the directions, I only have to:
>> 
>>  $ cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
>>  $ ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1
>> 
>> and then run Wine.  Yet, the utilities show no serial port!  Frustrating.
> 
> There was a bug report in the Wine BTS from long ago that attempted to
> fix some things in Wine's serial port implementation.  As I recall, the
> issue was that the ports do not show in the registry in the same manner
> as they do under Windows.  Unfortunately, I don't think the patch ever
> became a part of Wine as my follow ups on my systems showed that the
> ports still did not show and suggested work-arounds did not work for me.
> 
> As the source for the programs is not available, it's difficult to
> determine (at least for someone not familiar with Windows) just how the
> serial ports are searched for and found.  Perhaps it is possible that
> they are using some method not supported by Wine.  Such is the downside
> of closed source software.  :(
> 
> 73, de Nate >>
> 
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