[Wine] Re: serial communication

[Usurp]

ron r wrote:
> I am using Fedora 16.   Using "ls -l /dev/ttyS*" shows 4 "devices" with "crw-rw----" for each one.   So then I looked on google for setting serial permissions, and entered "chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS0" as root and the serial port now works!
> That was a nice victory, but the line must be entered at each boot.    (Is there a solution to that?)
> 
> Thank you, Martin, for the suggestions.  I would never have known how to begin to fix the problem.


As lahmbi5678 pointed out, access to the serial port only requires your user to be member of the "dialout" group,
which has read & write access to the ports.
Close your session after adding your user to the group, you should be fine.

Usurp