Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:06:31 -0500, dimesio wrote: > > >> Beartooth wrote: >> >>> The cables use the serial port. My suspicion is that wine isn't >>> telling the software about that. How do I make it do it?? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to- >> > configure#AEN407 > > Hmmm .... I'm probably being very stupid about that tilde. Fwiw, > I got wine by yum install, iirc. My .wine is in /home/btth ; I get : > > [root@localhost ~]# cd /home/btth > Ouch! Never run Wine as root. This can cause a number of problems, one being that .wine will not function properly. > [root@localhost btth]# ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1 > Again, try another comX port like com3. com1 may already exist and cannot be destroyed/created in this manner. James McKenzie