Wine NT Services / Serial Port

[Richard Scheffenegger]

Hi!

I'm currently working on a project to upgrade my car's display with NAV...
Due to prohibitive high costs of oem solutions (and limited use except for
nav), I decided to use a laptop, runnig that software...

So, I already have MS Autoroute 2001 (european version). Against my
expectations, this program runs fine with Wine release 20011004. However,
the GPS Add-In doesn't work.

I'm not completely certain, if it's the serial port (/dev/ttyS0, correctly
configured according to all the docs I found) or the gps-dlls with cause the
problem.

Obviously, there are two different such add-ons. One intended for win95 and
the other one for winnt40.

At least the winnt40 version registers itself as service during
installation, but I'm suspecting, that this dll/exe isn't executed in such a
manner, that autoroute.exe can access it when it runs.

Also, when you active the GPS function in AutoRoute, wine reports, that the
ports (com, lpt) get initialized, but nothing else (ie. no file hadles, no
baud-rates). And then, after a while, the application reports "no gps
receiver found", as if it never saw anything on the serial ports.

BTW: gpsd / gpsdriver or minicom all tell me, that the gps receiver is
working ok...


Perhaps someone here can help me debugging this stupid proggy, or point me
to a gps utility, which (unlike gpsdriver) comes with complete maps, and
route planning - which works under wine (if not native).

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,
   Richard