wine users - Oct 2005 - running application that make use of the com port

Dear everybody,

I am a newbie to using wine.

Currently I tried to run an application that try to talk to an opticon 
handhald scanner
connected through a com port.

I have tried using the rpm version (wine-20050524-1fc2winehq.i386.rpm)
as well as compiling wine (2005 09 30 version), and very much get the same
behaviour.

As suggested by the on line documentation, I have created a symbolic link
from the /dev/ttyS0 to $HOME/.wine/dosdevices/com1, and making sure that 
the user running
wine got read and write permission on /dev/ttyS0.

The application starts OK, however when I start the communication,
I got the following message on the console:
*fixme:toolhelp:InterruptRegister16 (0000, 0x11cf00ba), stub.*

and the communication between the application and the scanner connected to
com1 seems to stand still (no comms).

When I terminate the applications, then I get the following message on the
console
*fixme:toolhelp:InterruptUnRegister16 (0000), stub.
*
any suggestion?

Regards,

FLW

>>>>> "Fo" == Fo Loeng Wahidin <flw@zenucom.com>
writes:
    Fo> Dear everybody, I am a newbie to using wine.

    Fo> Currently I tried to run an application that try to talk to an
    Fo> opticon handhald scanner connected through a com port.

    Fo> I have tried using the rpm version
    Fo> (wine-20050524-1fc2winehq.i386.rpm) as well as compiling wine (2005
    Fo> 09 30 version), and very much get the same behaviour.

    Fo> As suggested by the on line documentation, I have created a symbolic
    Fo> link from the /dev/ttyS0 to $HOME/.wine/dosdevices/com1, and making
    Fo> sure that the user running wine got read and write permission on
    Fo> /dev/ttyS0.

    Fo> The application starts OK, however when I start the communication, I
    Fo> got the following message on the console:
    Fo> *fixme:toolhelp:InterruptRegister16 (0000, 0x11cf00ba), stub.*

    Fo> and the communication between the application and the scanner
    Fo> connected to com1 seems to stand still (no comms).

    Fo> When I terminate the applications, then I get the following message
    Fo> on the console *fixme:toolhelp:InterruptUnRegister16 (0000), stub.
    Fo> * any suggestion?

First run with --debugmsg +relay  and look if the application really opens
COM1. Look for a CreateFile with with appropriate arguments. Then look
further what the application does with the File Handle it got back from
CreateFile.

Bye
-- 
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