[Wine] Serial ports not available to apps nor in regedit

[Martin Gregorie]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:58 -0500, nate wrote:
> I've already read through bug 11811
> (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811) so I know a patch was
> offered about two years ago for Wine automatically recognizing the
> com* symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices.  Is there any hope that this will
> be functional soon?  I am trying a utility that needs to access the
> serial ports but there are none shown available in its ports dialog.
> I do have symlinks pointing to the proper device files, but the ports
> do not show in Wine's regedit as they do on a WinXP machine's regedit.
> So I think this is deeper than an application specific issue.
> 
Serial ports work correctly under Wine 1.3.4 - I have six installed (2
on the mobo and four on a six-port PCI serial card). They show up
as /dev/ttyS0 thru /dev/ttyS5. All are visible to a data download
program I run under Wine.

Bear in mind that by default all serial ports are only accessible by
root. If you want to use them from another user, as you will for a Wine
application, you need to change their access permissions. This link says
what I've found out about configuring serial ports for use from normal
users and with Wine applications:

http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/wine/serial_port_access.html


Martin