+arcadeshopper Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I successfully configured my Xubuntu 14.04 machine to work with HDX today. All it took was a simple simlink in the ~/.wine/dosdevices/ directory linking com1 to /dev/ttyUSB0 (my usb rs232 port) and then adding my user to the 'dialout' group so it would have access to the port. Loaded HDX via wine and it worked "out of the gate" to load a directory and copy a file. This testing was done with a 99/4a and Nanopeb V1.0 and a rs232 cable with auto-handshaking.. More info on wine rs232 config:http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to-configurehttp://www.witch.westfalen.de/Wine-HOWTO/ch-serial.html Serial and parallel port configuration is very similar to drive configuration - simply create a symbolic link in ~/.wine/dosdevices with the name of the device. Windows serial ports follow a naming convention of the word com followed by a number, such as com1, com2, etc. Similarly, parallel ports use lpt followed by a number, such as lpt1. You should link these directly to the corresponding Unix devices, such as /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/lp0. Make sure you have the needed access rights to that device. For example, to configure one serial port and one parallel port, run the following commands: ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1 ln -s /dev/lp0 lpt1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertLM78 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 That's great news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Very cool, I've never used wine that way before. That said, I'd still prefer a native linux implementation, in source format so that we could compile it to run it on a Pi or other low-cost ARM SBC. Hell, with the proper DSR, the Pi could take up the task of quite the bunch of devices (SD Card drive, RTC, WiFi connected Lantronix alternative, ...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Can you run Classic99 on Wine? Maybe I need to move all my stuff to OS X instead of Windows as I am having so many freaking issues with Windows 7 lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertLM78 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Can you run Classic99 on Wine? Maybe I need to move all my stuff to OS X instead of Windows as I am having so many freaking issues with Windows 7 lately. I use an XP Virtualbox for Classic99. (It runs pretty rough on Wine). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Yea that is what I thought. Last time I stuck my foot in to Wine I really hated it. Sorry to here no improvement since then. I ran Virtual PC on OS X but they dropped support for it, to bad it worked great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertLM78 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 (edited) I'm willing to bet something as OS agnostic as Virtualbox should run on OS X. And it's F.(L.)O.S.S. as well. Edited July 18, 2014 by RobertLM78 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 Can you run Classic99 on Wine? Maybe I need to move all my stuff to OS X instead of Windows as I am having so many freaking issues with Windows 7 lately. It runs but mess is better Greg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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