wine users - Jun 2010 - Wine + winebottler + azloader.exe + rs232 to usb adapter

Hello guys. I am new in mac world and in wine apps.
I have this singular situation:
I have a macbook with wine and winebottler installed.
I want to use this exe app: azloader.exe. Ok, wine is able to load it normally.
But... the problem is, my macbook has not the RS-232 port. So I bought a RS-232
to USB adapter. I've installed the correct "drive" to use that.
I've tried that in windows, and ok, the azloader was able to send data
trhoutgh the "com 3 port" (that's where the driver rs232-usb is
installed).
But my macbook couldn't. I believe that wine runs the azloader right, but
it's not able to use thet rs232-usb mac's drive! I haven't installed
the driver for windows with wine.
What to do? install the rs232-usb windows driver using wine?
what eles? install windows in bootcamp?
I've tried to "create" the azloader.app using winebottler, but it
never ends the process.
What more can I do?
tks a lot

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 08:27 -0500, anbes wrote:
> So I bought a RS-232 to USB adapter. I've installed the correct
> "drive" to use that. I've tried that in windows, and ok, the
azloader
> was able to send data trhoutgh the "com 3 port" (that's where
the
> driver rs232-usb is installed).
>
I run wine apps under Linux, so the following is probably directly
helpful, but may give you a clue. My Wine apps can use serial ports on
the motherboard and on a 6-port serial adapter card but have never been
able to see my pfranc USB-serial adapter. Other people have been able to
use USB-serial adapters, so maybe the chipset in the adapter is
important. On the other hand, all current Linuxes address serial ports
as /dev/ttyS[0-9] and USB adapters as /dev/ttyUSB[0-9], so its equally
possible that wine apps can't see USB devices because their names are
different. 

Maybe OS X does something similar?
 

Martin

Humm, that's a point!
How can I change this "port name"?
Well, at leats I'll try use windows in bootcamp! I am tring to avoid
windows!

Well, I think the only possibility is to install windows in my mac, isn't
it?
I am not a programmer, so I don't have any idea how to
"manipulate" these stuffs.
tks for all

all the devices are in /dev in OSX as well... I've never directly tried to
access anything except the optical drive, which doesn't work in Wine on
OSX... (yet).  You should be able to try and directly access it just like in
Linux.

Gert van den Berg <wine-users at mohag.net>
>Sent: Jun 7, 2010 11:28 AM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: Re: [Wine] Wine + winebottler + azloader.exe + rs232 to usb adapter
>
>On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 20:10, anbes <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
>> Well, I think the only possibility is to install windows in my mac,
isn't it?
>> I am not a programmer, so I don't have any idea how to
"manipulate" these stuffs.
>> tks for all
>>
>HAve a look at Virtualbox... (Its much nicer than dual booting...)
>
+1.  However, you will need a fully licensed copy of Windows to complete the
installation and it does take up space on your hard drive.
>Someone who knows Mac OS better might still come up with a nicer solution...
>
I've seen Parallels, VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion.  All are about the same,
but VirtualBox is or should be free....

You might also want to take a look at the 'hack' USB patches as they may
help your USB <-> serial product actually work.

James McKenzie

But we do not must forguet, that I have to use wine anyway, `cause the
"azloader.exe" is not avaliable in app format!
And I think that`s the manory cause of the problem, because this exe apps ins
under wine, the drive solution must be too, ma ia wrong?