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« on: September 18, 2008, 08:01:55 PM » |
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Have my bc996 hooked to com port 1. Freescan never auto detects the port nor can I connect manually with com port 1 and 115200 baud. Freescan works in Windows on the same com port. Anybody got some ideas?
Jim
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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2008, 03:52:06 AM » |
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Might have to review Wine's COM Port configuration file to make sure the simulated COM1 is actually pointing to the correct/dev/tty device in linux.
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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2008, 08:13:41 PM » |
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Ok, but I looked at wine configuration program, but there was nothing there about com ports. So, I assume that there is a wine configuration file somewhere...correct?
Will hunt that up.
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« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2008, 09:15:10 PM » |
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Its a hidden file somewhere in the root of the user's .wine directory, i cant quite remember which one though. Aww linux so easy to use.
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2008, 03:19:50 PM » |
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Well, I have looked all over and cannot find a wine configuration file...even turned on "show hidden files." There is a userreg file and one other reg file..I changed the empty string to com 1, but that did not help. Some just say port 1 not com port 1. Do you have any more tips..I am stumped.
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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2008, 06:33:22 PM » |
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That was a real good suggestion about a link to com1. Too bad it didn't work. I even changed to permissions on the com port...no help. This bugs me no end since I have two Kenwood memory programs that don't work either. Has anybody on this list made Freescan work in linux?
Jim
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« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2008, 06:48:13 PM » |
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I have gotten it to work with a USB/serial adaptor. I did have to make the /dev/tty device world-writable though, thanks for jogging my memory with that permission bit. Beyond that you might have a scanner configuration problem, are you using the front port? did you check that the baud rate is set properly?
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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2008, 07:56:09 PM » |
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Yea, I am using the front port. Freescan does work in Windows. The baud rate in the 996 is 115200. Might try a usb dongle, tomorrow.
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« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2008, 08:01:12 PM » |
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As I recall to use the Prolific USB-Serial adaptor I had to recompile the kernel to include driver support for that chipset. That was fun!
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« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2008, 07:20:28 PM » |
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I have been wondering if it would be possible to let the user type in the linux device in the com port box instead of com1...e.g. /dev/ttyS0. I also am beginning to wonder if the serial port on this laptop is dead. Still checking that out.
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« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2008, 07:40:29 PM » |
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Its just not possible because under Wine there is no way to detect linux devices, and creating the link should do the trick.
Or if there is a way I am not going to make my brain blow up figuring out another linux puzzle. If they built cars the way they built linux, you would have to do a complete engine teardown and rebuild to change radio stations.
Have you tried using a modem terminal emulater to access the scanner through linux?
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« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2008, 08:46:40 PM » |
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Now you've got me. What is a terminal emulator?
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« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2008, 08:47:48 PM » |
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Its like hyperterminal in windows.
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auto detect on linux