wine users - Aug 2004 - Program cannot find COM ports

Hi!
  I have a problem running original Siemens Mobile Phone Update program.
  It starts but writes "No COM ports available" and then quits.
  I have my ports correctly configured but I didn't find any attempt to
use them by the program (with WINEDEBUG=all). However, I've found an attempt
to use the key "Hardware\\DeviceMap\\SerialComm", which is not present
in
any of my registry files.
  Because I have no experiences with windoze, I'm a pure Linux user, I would
like to ask, whether it's possible to "fake" the key with some
meaningful
value to make the program happy and use my serial ports.
                                          With regards, Pavel Troller

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:52:06 +0200, you wrote:
> Hi!
>   I have a problem running original Siemens Mobile Phone Update program.
>   It starts but writes "No COM ports available" and then quits.
>   I have my ports correctly configured but I didn't find any attempt to
> use them by the program (with WINEDEBUG=all). However, I've found an
attempt
> to use the key "Hardware\\DeviceMap\\SerialComm", which is not
present in
> any of my registry files.
>   Because I have no experiences with windoze, I'm a pure Linux user, I
would
> like to ask, whether it's possible to "fake" the key with
some meaningful
> value to make the program happy and use my serial ports.
Well, you can add the registry keys of course with regedit.

Wine should do this automatically, I think. A bug report at
http://bugs.winehq.org  would be useful.

Rein.
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Rein Klazes
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