I've already read through bug 11811 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811) so I know a patch was offered about two years ago for Wine automatically recognizing the com* symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices. Is there any hope that this will be functional soon? I am trying a utility that needs to access the serial ports but there are none shown available in its ports dialog. I do have symlinks pointing to the proper device files, but the ports do not show in Wine's regedit as they do on a WinXP machine's regedit. So I think this is deeper than an application specific issue.
Martin Gregorie
2010-Oct-19 22:27 UTC
[Wine] Serial ports not available to apps nor in regedit
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:58 -0500, nate wrote:> I've already read through bug 11811 > (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811) so I know a patch was > offered about two years ago for Wine automatically recognizing the > com* symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices. Is there any hope that this will > be functional soon? I am trying a utility that needs to access the > serial ports but there are none shown available in its ports dialog. > I do have symlinks pointing to the proper device files, but the ports > do not show in Wine's regedit as they do on a WinXP machine's regedit. > So I think this is deeper than an application specific issue. >Serial ports work correctly under Wine 1.3.4 - I have six installed (2 on the mobo and four on a six-port PCI serial card). They show up as /dev/ttyS0 thru /dev/ttyS5. All are visible to a data download program I run under Wine. Bear in mind that by default all serial ports are only accessible by root. If you want to use them from another user, as you will for a Wine application, you need to change their access permissions. This link says what I've found out about configuring serial ports for use from normal users and with Wine applications: http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/wine/serial_port_access.html Martin