[Wine] Wine + winebottler + azloader.exe + rs232 to usb adapter

Martin Gregorie martin at gregorie.org
Tue Jun 8 04:37:20 CDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 18:36 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> Martin Gregorie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 21:26 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote:
> >   
> >> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 21:06, doh123 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> all the devices are in /dev in OSX as well... I've never directly tried to access anything except the optical drive, which doesn't work in Wine on OSX... (yet).  You should be able to try and directly access it just like in Linux.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> If OS X detects the device correctly enough to load a driver... (which
> >> may / may not be visible from System profiler)
> >>
> >> The device names might also be different... (/dev/tty.something looks
> >> common...) (try ls /dev/*tty* to try and find it...)
> >>
> >> Thing like this might be needed: http://osx-pl2303.sourceforge.net/
> >>
> >>     
> > Does OS X keep a static list of device files, as Linux used to do in
> > its pre UDEV days or do device files get built on the fly as they are
> > needed?
> >
> >   
> No, it is dynamic (sigh)
> 
That's not necessarily a disaster. Can you change the instructions OS X
uses to add a device to its device list? If so, adding a HOWTO to the
Wine wiki or a pointer to one would be useful.


Martin





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