[Bug 11811] Coastal Explorer sees no COM ports

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Thu Nov 6 12:33:34 CST 2008


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811


Mike Davies <linux_bugs at rovoreed.com> changed:

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--- Comment #38 from Mike Davies <linux_bugs at rovoreed.com>  2008-11-06 12:33:33 ---
(In reply to comment #37)
> Hi folks,
> I'm thinking of picking this up to get a firmware loader working through the
> serial ports for my Digifly Vario.
> 
> I see that wine.inf (via wineboot) does create \\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM.
> The entries COM1 etc are never populated, however.
> In theory one simply scans .wine/dosdevices for com ports people have
> symlinked.
> I think mountmgr.sys type implementation is too much: either the symlink is
> there, or it's not.
> 
> However, at the moment, something is wiping the SERIALCOMM and PARALLEL PORTS
> entries: I think it might be create_scsi_entry code in dlls/kernel/oldconfig.c.
> 

According to Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102988/en-us this part
of the registry (HKLM\hardware) gets wiped each time windows starts.

If you are working on this great - sooner the better please :-)


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