[time-nuts] TimeLab with Wine: No RS232 interface available

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Wed Feb 4 23:45:39 UTC 2015


The trick is to link /dev/ttyS0 (or whatever) so that it occurs in 
~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 which seemed to help a bit.

Cheers,
Magnus

On 02/04/2015 09:49 PM, joerg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask some advice about running TimeLab under Linux with Wine.
> The program starts well (at least I guess), but no RS232 interface is found
> in the acquire window. I tried the com port of my notebooks docking station,
> a PCMCIA to RS232 converter and 3 different USB to RS232 cables.
> This is what I did:
>
>> dmesg | grep tty
> to find the devices and
>> setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123456789]
> to see the details of the ports on docking station and PCMCIA card respectively
>> setserial -g /dev/ttyUSB[0123456789]
> for details on the RS232 ports of the USB adapters.
>
> Then under   ~/.wine/dosdevices   I created links:
>> ln -s /dev/ttySx comz
> for the the ports on docking station and PCMCIA card respectively
>> ln -s /dev/ttyUSBx comz
> for the USB adapters with x and z in place of adequate numbers.
>
> Then I modified ~/.wine/system.reg
> [Hardware\\Devicemap\\Serialcomm] 12345678
> "Serial0"="COM1"
> "Serial1"="COM2"
> etc.Also I tried:
> "COM1"="COM1"
> [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Ports] 12345678
> "COM1:"="19200,n,8,1"
> "COM2:"="9600,n,8,1"
> etc.
>
> The windows terminal program HTerm under Wine sees all the COM ports
> I tried and is able to communicate on all of them. Also on Linux
> itself all tested serial ports are available and functional (tested
> with Putty). But TimeLab shows no COM port, the "Available Interfaces"
> window is empty. Has anybody succeeded with TimeLab and RS232 under
> Wine and can give a hint? I have no USB to GPIB adapter, so I can't
> test if this would work. OS is OpenSUSE 13.1.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Joerg
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