[Elecraft] K3: Using Linux

[Matt Zilmer]

All the Elecraft utilities I use work fine on Wine, under Ubuntu 16.04.  
Using Wine dodges the multiarch requirement, and it seems 100% 
compatible with all Windoze API calls the utilities make.  If you decide 
to go this way, you'll have to make a symlink between /dev/tty<whatever> 
to COM1 in dos_devices.  If your serial port under Linux is 
/dev/ttyUSB0, in a terminal type

     ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

[Also, see 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/685985/symbolic-link-between-usb-and-com-port].

The Linux native utilities are ported from Win32 to the Linux 32-bit API.

73,

matt W6NIA


On 7/31/2016 4:01 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2016 30 Jul 20:39 -0500, Bill wrote:
>> I am only interested in how well the Elecraft provided software under Linux
>> works? I do not use any third party stuff at all. Is it as easy and straight
>> forward as their Windows software?
>>
>> K3 Utility, KPA Utility, etc.
> Be aware that the Elecraft utilities are only available in 32 bit
> versions at this time.  If you use a distribution that allows
> 'multiarch', and Mint should being a Debian derivative, you will need
> i386 architecture enabled if your base architecture is amd64.  Ubuntu,
> and probably Mint, have this enabled on amd64 installations.  You will
> probably have to manually install the i386 versions of some libraries.
>
> It sounds like more of a hassle than it really is.
>
> 73, Nate
>

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Matt Zilmer, W6NIA
[Shiraz]