[Wine] USB and serial

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 11:44:28 CST 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:45:22PM -0600, Austin English wrote:
>>
>> Serial support in wine is pretty buggy:
>> http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=serial+port
>
> Thanks, Austin. Following the above, I discovered how to turn on
> WINDEBUG; I probably went a bit overboard with
> 'WINEDEBUG="+comm,+file,+serial", but I did spot the following coming
> out of the firehose:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"C:\\windows\\serialui.dll",0x32eed8,(nil),(nil))
> trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"C:\\windows\\serialui.dll" 520 0x32ec5c (nil))
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"serialui.dll" not found in /home/ben/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> That certainly seems like it would torpedo any attempt to communicate
> via a serial port. Any suggestions of where I can download such a
> critter?
>
>
> --
> * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
>
>

To list as well:

That's a false warning...it means it didn't see the fake dll we have
for some dlls. Some apps check for the file name, rather than
functionality.

You can try overriding it with native, and see if that helps.

-- 
-Austin



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