[time-nuts] TimeLab with Wine: No RS232 interface available

joerg wurstkniffte at web.de
Sat Feb 7 10:13:45 EST 2015


Thank you all. Unfortunatly I'm still not able to get TimeLab
in contact with any of my RS232 interfaces. Is there may an
option when calling limelab.exe to force the usage of a
defined port?

Inbetween I tried also a lot with system.reg. HTerm is very
tolerant to the names given to the ports, TimeLab still can't find
any port.
BTW: I use HTerm only to check if other windows programms
can use the ports. When I normaly need a terminal I use a Linux
program like Putty. I only use Wine with a window program
if there is really no Linux alternative. So my Wine and windows
knowledge is limited.

In detail to your answers: 

"Magnus Danielson" <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
> The trick is to link /dev/ttyS0 (or whatever) so that it occurs in
> ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 which seemed to help a bit.
Already did this, and tried it now also in the folder where the
timelab.exe is in case that there is a problem  with the path.
No success.

"Mark Sims" <holrum at hotmail.com>
> I have seen several issues with Windows programs not releasing (or perhaps
> not being able to releaase) the serial ports after using them. Once one of
> these programs accesses the serial port, no other programs can use it until
> you re-boot. I'm fighting windoze Hypertrm right now over this issue
> trying to read from a freq counter for some ADEV measurements. Once
> HYPERTRM runs, no other program can access the serial port.
Good point, I tried TimeLab direclty after fresh reboots, but the
interfaces are still invisible.

"Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
> One trick with Windows is to disable and then renable the serial port,
> in particular, USB ports sometimes get stuck, and this fixes them.

> There's also some power management things with USB connected ports that
> can get things confused. (You don't want USB selective suspend enabled)

> there's a command line tools that can do this, or you can use Device
> Manager.
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 describes devcon, which can do
> all sorts of useful stuff.
Tried the program from your link, but
>wine devcon findall =ports
was not able to find a port. Are you able to run it under Wine
or only under windows?


Any idea is still very welcome.

Joerg


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