Irena and Richard Jenkins wrote: > > 1. Is the com1 poprt setup under wine ... actually happening? > > 2. Is a wine user given permission to open the com1 port. (When I use > virtualbox and winXP) I have to be sure that my name is included in the > cboxusers group ... and maybe this wine difficulty is a permission thing? > > 3 Are there some help files or logs which will tell me where the process is > going wrong? Using virtualbox and winXP is a bit of overkill for just 1 > small program!! > > Richard > I can't get my serial ports to work, but others have. 1: Wine defaults to using /dev/ttyS0 as com1. To override the defaults, create a symbolic link in the dosdevices directory. e.g., I used ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com2 2: Normally, no. You must change the permissions under linux so that the program's user has access to the port. In my case I added my user to the dialup group.
