Using USB-Serial adapter with WINE

Question

With Wine, to configure/program a skateboard ESC.

I've downloaded Wine and gotten the program running like this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/VEOl2.jpg

So the program is a little cut of, and then you can also see that the Serial adapter is not recognized!

I-ve tried using the command

ln -s /dev/tty0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

And

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com

With no luck. How do I go about fixing this issue? Best regards.

WINE is no good for that. A (Windows) VM may work with USB passtrought and drivers installed. I did it once to use Windows software to flash a tablet (the software also runs with Wine but wouldn't detect the tablet). — user880592, Oct 12, 2018 at 18:17

Greg Chabala · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-18 22:54:30Z

Your attempted solution of

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

would have worked in earlier versions of Wine. This changed in Wine 2.8, now you need to manage the mapping using RegEdit.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine regedit

Add a string entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wine\Ports with a key of COM1 and a value of /dev/ttyUSB0.

This problem is called out specifically in this blog post: https://www.scivision.dev/wine-serial-port-links/

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