[Wine]Program cannot find COM ports

Pavel Troller patrol at sinus.cz
Tue Aug 17 03:13:42 CDT 2004


Hi!
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:52:06 +0200, you wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >   I have a problem running original Siemens Mobile Phone Update program.
> >   It starts but writes "No COM ports available" and then quits.
> >   I have my ports correctly configured but I didn't find any attempt to
> > use them by the program (with WINEDEBUG=all). However, I've found an attempt
> > to use the key "Hardware\\DeviceMap\\SerialComm", which is not present in
> > any of my registry files.
> >   Because I have no experiences with windoze, I'm a pure Linux user, I would
> > like to ask, whether it's possible to "fake" the key with some meaningful
> > value to make the program happy and use my serial ports.
> 
> Well, you can add the registry keys of course with regedit.
I know that :-), but I don't know the value of the keys, i.e. what should I
add... Could somebody write, what are the correct contents of the key ?
Sorry for wrong formulation of my original question :-).
> 
> Wine should do this automatically, I think. A bug report at
> http://bugs.winehq.org  would be useful.
OK, will do as soon as I get someting more about it.
                                          With regards, Pavel Troller



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