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Hi Pierre,<br><br>{snip}<br><br>> > <br>> > I did try all 4 COM devices within the program, and all gave an <br>> > error. At least, using COM2 took a few seconds to give the error, <br>> > suggesting that it did access the port, but somehow they failed to <br>> > communicate.<br>> <br>> Almost there,<br>> <br>> /dev/ttyS0 is known to wine as COM1, /dev/ttyS1 as COM2 and so on. So <br>> /dev/ttyS4 is COM5 and /dev/ttyS5 is COM6.<br>> <br>> '73 - Pierre<br>> __<br>> <br>> Pierre Thibaudeau<br>> VA2RKA/VA2RKB/VE2RIO/VE2RVR/VE2RQF/VE2RTO/VE2LKL/VE2TXD sysadmin<br>> <br><br>Bummer. The software only knows how to talk to COM1 through 4. <br><br>But, how does Wine know what the mapping is? Are these hard-coded names, or are there links somewhere that I can change? I tried changing the symbolic link that I made under dosdevices to "com2:" (adding the colon), and the timeout turned into an immediate error. So I concluded that the link is correct.<br><br>The annoyance is that Linux has it stuck in its mind that the second and third serial ports (which are via an add-in PCI card with no jumpers) are /dev/ttyS4 and S5. The previous incarnation of the system (OpenSuSE 10.2) was well behaved and numbered them S1 and S2, but a previous one to that had them up in the teens (S14 and S15, if I recall). I don't know of any way to change that; is there? <br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Greg KO6TH<br><br><br /><hr />Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. <a href='http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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