K3 Memory Editor running under Wine/Linux?

[LarryJ]

Any one successfully running  the K3 Memory Editor under Wine in Linux?

I  installed winetricks (http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks) and the Memory Editor program appears to function (Spreadsheet like user interface appears) but the Memory Editor program then never picks up my symbolic links to the com ports.   The error message reports that "The PortName cannot be empty" when I attempt "Read from K3".  The drop down com port selector is blank even though  my ~/.wine/dosdevices has the suggested symbolic links:

lj@lian2:~./wine/dosdevices  ls -al com1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lj lj 2011-12-10 10:35  com1 -> /dev/ttyS0

My attempts were made under Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and Wine 1.2.2.  Thanks for any help.

Larry W0AY
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[Dick Dievendorff]

The .Net framework and Windows versions of the Elecraft Utilities discover Com ports through registry key/values defined for this purpose.  Drivers install their names there in Windows. I'm away from my code, and don't recall the exact key but the key has HARDWARE and SERIALCOMM in it. Try this link for the technique

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/07/31/listing-all-serial-ports-on-windows-with-python/

Dick, K6KR

On Dec 10, 2011, at 8:19, "Larry J on Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Any one successfully running  the K3 Memory Editor under Wine in Linux?
>
> I  installed winetricks (http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks) and the Memory Editor program appears to function (Spreadsheet like user interface appears) but the Memory Editor program then never picks up my symbolic links to the com ports.   The error message reports that "The PortName cannot be empty" when I attempt "Read from K3".  The drop down com port selector is blank even though  my ~/.wine/dosdevices has the suggested symbolic links:
>
> lj@lian2:~./wine/dosdevices  ls -al com1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 lj lj 2011-12-10 10:35  com1 -> /dev/ttyS0
>
> My attempts were made under Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and Wine 1.2.2.  Thanks for any help.
>
> Larry W0AY
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[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2011 10 Dec 12:20 -0600, Larry J on Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop wrote:
> lj@lian2:~./wine/dosdevices  ls -al com1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 lj lj 2011-12-10 10:35  com1 -> /dev/ttyS0
>
> My attempts were made under Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and Wine 1.2.2.  Thanks for any help.

I've never had success with serial ports in Wine although it has been
some time since I tried.  Several months ago on another list someone
reported the later beta releases of Wine will work with built-in serial
ports such as yours, but not with USB to serial adapters that I use.

You may wish to give the later Wine 1.3 releases a try:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa

Unfortunately, I think the Wine developers main focus is on office apps
and games, not hardware access such as serial ports.

73, de Nate N0NB >>

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[Leigh L. Klotz Jr WA5ZNU]

You need to edit .wine/system.reg file to tell it about the serial ports.
I've used heather3 (a Thunderbolt GPS-DO monitor) with USB RS232 and it works FB once you do this.

Here's a random post I found that describes it, but there are a lot of places that have the workaround.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aprsisce/message/7562

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