Re: com ports

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Mike Anthony wrote:
Nikolas Arend wrote:
Ian Couchman wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am in the last stages of converting my business to Linux. All software is
now open-source or running under wine. Except one. The software supplied by
my bank. This runs fine under wine apart from the dialup to the bank. No
matter what settings I use for the modem, I always get the message that the
modem cannot be initialised.
Here's what I have confirmed so far:
The com port is pointing to the right place in wine. If I select a
non-existant port, the software says it cannot access the port.
I have access permissions for the port. Using kppp, I can dial out without
problem.
For the same reason, the modem, serial connections & phone connections are OK.


This is just a quick shot...
I had the same problem talking to my modem on the COM port with
wine-0.9.16 (although I knew that it had worked before). Downgrading to
wine-0.9.10 in my case solved the issue. I can't tell you what changed
or at which exact version things broke. I just saw that wine 0.9.17 is
out, maybe the issue got resolved (if there was one with 0.9.16).
Of course, downgrading wine might bring up problems with your other
apps, but it might be worth a try. In any case you should back up your
~/.wine directory before playing around ;-)

Cheers,   Nick.

This is interesting. I have been pulling my hair out trying to get the
comm ports to work using wine and an amateur radio application. I'm
using 9.16 on a new clean SuSE 10.1 installation. Comm ports have been
chmodded to 0666 and can be communicated with outside of wine.
Soooo, does this mean somthing is broken with 9.16?

I can't tell for sure if there's really s.th. broken with 0.9.16 or if it's just a strange coincident with my system (FC4), any updates of other programs I performed or anything else. But the fact that an earlier version works where 0.9.16 doesn't is an indication that something changed in that part of the code and, probably, got broken. But the wine devs will know ;-)

Best,  Nick.



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