Serial Port Access Under Wine

[Irena and Richard Jenkins]

I have asked this before, but has anyone successfully used serial
port /dev/ttyS0 under wine? I am trying to run a windows program for
controlling an amateur radio - a 'tentec pegasus'.

My linux is a debian derivative ... sidux ... and I have installed wine from
the sid repositories. The program runs ... and displays a radio dial which
looks correct. However, because I cannot access the port, I cannot talk to
the radio ... so the dials don't work. The program gives a message that it
cannot establish communications with the radio.

1. Is the com1 poprt setup under wine ... actually happening?

2. Is a wine user given permission to open the com1 port. (When I use
virtualbox and winXP) I have to be sure that my name is included in the
cboxusers group ... and maybe this wine difficulty is a permission thing?

3 Are there some help files or logs which will tell me where the process is
going wrong? Using virtualbox and winXP is a bit of overkill for just 1
small program!!

Richard
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Irena & Richard Jenkins
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[LJB]

1. Is the com1 poprt setup under wine ... actually happening?

2. Is a wine user given permission to open the com1 port. (When I use
virtualbox and winXP) I have to be sure that my name is included in the
cboxusers group ... and maybe this wine difficulty is a permission thing?

3 Are there some help files or logs which will tell me where the process is
going wrong? Using virtualbox and winXP is a bit of overkill for just 1
small program!!

Richard

I can't get my serial ports to work, but others have.

1: Wine defaults to using /dev/ttyS0 as com1. To override the defaults, create a symbolic link in the dosdevices directory.
e.g., I used ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com2

2: Normally, no. You must change the permissions under linux so that the program's user has access to the port. In my case I added my user to the dialup group.

[curlymike]

Does ten-tec pegagus let you use telnet?

I think serial port access under wine has been flaky in the past,
not sure about current version.

I use serial port access under wine, using teraterm terminal emulator,
It works fine using crossover version of wine, but has problems in version 0.9.41,
(communicates but with a lot of errors making it unusable).

To get round this I use "ser2net"
and access serial ports via tcp

ie; in /etc/ser2net.conf
2000:telnet:0: /dev/ttyS0:9600 8DATABITS NONE 1STOPBIT
2001:telnet:0: /dev/ttyS0:19200 8DATTABITS NON 1STOPBIT
2002:telnet:0: /dev/ttyS1:9600 8DATABITS NONE 1STOPBIT
2003:telnet:0: /dev/ttyS1:19200 8DATTABITS NON 1STOPBIT


This makes ttyS0 available as localhost:2000 or localhost:2001
depending on which baud rate you want.