[Wine]Problem using echolink and wine

[Justin Burket]

Good day all,

I've been trying to make Echolink (a ham radio VOIP application) to 
work under wine.  The application currently fires up and runs just 
fine.  Heck it can even control my radio via the serial port (most 
impressive).  However i'm having no luck getting my line-in sound input 
on the PC to be picked up by Echolink.  Let me explain a bit of what 
echolink does....

Echolink takes VOIP packets from other echolink nodes around the world 
and relay's them over the internet to your node.  It has the option of 
controlling a radio via the serial port in order to provide a sort of 
repeater so people with a handheld can use the echolink node to talk to 
the other echolink nodes on the internet.  The radio connected to the 
PC receives on it's input the output from the echolink node (or the 
soundcard output).  When a user at a distant location talks to the 
radio connected to the echolink PC the radio's speaker output goes into 
the PC's soundcard input and hopefully is picked up by echolink and 
dumped onto the internet.

That's the theory at least.  I've verified that my line-in from the 
radio is working by turning up the line-in volume with gnome-alsamixer 
and listening to test transmissions from the radio through the PC's 
speaker.  However nothing I can do makes echolink receive any signals 
on the line-in or mic inputs. Speaker output from echolink into the 
radio's mic input (and thus out onto the air) works great, along with 
the serial transmit key circuit.

My current configuration is thus:

kernel: stock debian 2.4.whatever from debian-sarge
sound: stock alsa modules from debian-sarge (I don't know the version)
soundcard: ess18xx
wine: 20040716
	-Wine is setup with a fake windows install and is using wine supplied 
dll's as i have no legal copy of windows
          -For wine's audio I have been using the OSS driver.  Whenever 
I try and switch my config over to the ALSA driver the program does not 
show any information for the audio setup pane and no audio can be 
heard.

Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated.  I have considered 
trying to find a mixer control panel program for windows (and thus 
wine) and seeing if perhaps the mixer settings arn't set right.  I am 
currently compiling a 2.6 series kernel with full alsa support to see 
if that will fix the problem.

I also want to take a few lines and say great work on wine!  I remember 
when wine was just starting out and sol.exe could barely be started.  
Now i'm able to take a off the net piece of software and get almost 
100% results without a single M$ owned piece of software installed on 
my machine.  Great job everyone!

Thanks,
Justin Burket
KL1RL