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My setup is the standard one generated by the Suse RPM. The links in<br>
the dosdevices directory for hardware access are owned by root, and<br>
locked to ordinary users. I can su to root and change the permissions.<br>
This allows my programs to access the serial ports, but it is not<br>
persistent. On reboot, the links are again locked. I tried deleting<br>
the links and creating new ones as the ordinary user. Again, this is<br>
not persistent. On reboot, root again seizes control of the links and<br>
locks out other users. Since I am the administrator of this machine, I<br>
can kludge my way around it by changing the permissions every time I<br>
start up the computer, or I can be stupid and run everything as root.<br>
Neither is a spiffy solution. If you know where in the startup scripts<br>
root is making a nuisance of himself, I appreciate enlightenment on<br>
fixing it.<br>
<br>
Larry<br>
<br>
Uwe Bonnes wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">>>>>>> "Larry" ==
Larry Lohkamp <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:loko@comcast.net"><loko@comcast.net></a> writes:<br>
>>>>>> <br>
><br>
> Larry> I have been trying to throw away my dependence on
Windoz since<br>
> Larry> the early Pentium era, but there always seems to
be some<br>
> Larry> essential application that can't be replaced.
Currently it is the<br>
> Larry> programs that read my blood glucose meeter and an
athletic<br>
> Larry> trainer system. Both of them communicate through a
serial port. I<br>
> Larry> am currently working on getting the trainer going.
It loads fine<br>
> Larry> and has no trouble running until it tries to
connect to the<br>
> Larry> hardware. I get a program error saying that it
cannot find the<br>
> Larry> trainer. I seem to have the link that points wine
to the serial<br>
> Larry> port device, but the terminal screen fills with
'handle not<br>
> Larry> found' errors when the connection is attempted.
Surely, after all<br>
> Larry> the work that has gone into wine, someone has
gotten the serial<br>
> Larry> ports to work.<br>
><br>
> I suspect that your setup is wrong. Either the serial port has
inappropriate<br>
> permissions or the link in dosdevices is wrong.<br>
><br>
> I suggest you should learn some basic wine debugging. Run with
e.g. with<br>
> WINEDEBUG=+relay, pipe the resulting output into a file and
afterwards grep<br>
> through the file to find the place where the application tries
to open the<br>
> serial port. Try to find out what goes wrong and fix your setup.<br>
><br>
> Bye<br>
> </span><br>
<br>
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