[Elecraft] K3: Using Linux - OT

[Mike Rhodes]

   Ok, I already see I have misunderstood something. I mistakenly 
thought Wine was an emulator that would allow you to run a copy of 
Windows on Linux where it is actually a Windows on Linux simulator. That 
answers at least part of my question.

Mike / W8DN

On 7/31/2016 11:14 AM, Mike Rhodes wrote:
>   Ok, I am not a Unix/Linux user. Years ago I did a little C 
> programming on a real-time Unix box but have forgotten way more than I 
> learned about that system (and C).
>   However, I have to ask the question - what is the point of getting 
> away from "windoze" by going to a Linux box and then immediately 
> slapping a fully licensed copy of "Windoze", running under an 
> emulator, on that Linux box. It just seems not only counter-intuitive 
> but counter-productive. Since the majority of the apps that I wish to 
> run are strictly Windows based, it just seems to make more sense to 
> run the real thing natively. If the intent is to not add more to the 
> Gates billions then you have defeated that by running under an emulator.
>
> Mike / W8DN
>
> On 7/31/2016 10:39 AM, Matt Zilmer wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>
>