Tom, The issue was that I had the W2 interface running fine in Wine but could not get it to connect to my computer. Several people responded here and were very helpful but it was Martin DM4IM who sent me this which was easy to read, understand and accomplish:
Hello Bill, try this: Linux handles serial devices different from windows. Your usb-serial adaptor probably will be recogniced as /dev/ttyUSB0, while your Windows-Software running under wine only can handle COMx. So you need to tell wine what device it should use for serial communications. You can do this by linking the linux-device to the windows device. Open a console and type: ls /dev/ttyUSB* You should see a reply like this: /dev/ttyUSBx where x is probably 0 (zero). Now, assuming the x was 0 (zero), type (case-sensitive!) or simply copy and paste: ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 If you type correct, this will put a file named com1 in /home/yourusername/.wine/dosdevices where /.wine is a hidden directory. Check if the file is there by typing ls ~/.wine/dosdevices Amongst a number of drive-letters, you should find a file named com1 (This step might or might not be neccessary: (Then log out and back in. If you don't know how to log out/in, simply (reboot. Now run your application under wine. Advise it to use com1. I expect this to work, but if it doesn't , you probably need to set some permissions. I can help. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Got-the-W2-interface-and-utility-working-on-Linux-tp7592427p7592440.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
