New proptool and Wine

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• evanh Posts: 15,187

  2020-12-19 19:40 edited 2020-12-19 19:53

  Same for me. PNut comms is fine but modern PropTool can't see anything. Both are in the one bottle, so can't say that's misconfigured. I didn't investigate and I know modern Wine's default port numbers for USB converters start high in the numbering, COM32 I think. I'd kind of assumed that was the reason, ie: PNut is okay with high numbers but PropTool maybe isn't.
  
  PS: PropTool used to work. Chances are it is Wine that has changed its default behaviour.
  PPS: Just tried PropTool v 1.3.2 and same story. Unzipped file date is 20 July 2012, so I'd say Wine is the one that changed. Possibly the issue is with how to assign a specific lower COMx number. It used to be as simple as plop down a symbolic link to the relevant device path ...
  
  
• evanh Posts: 15,187

  2020-12-19 20:15

  Hmm, no, not that, I've already got the new method dealt to in my bottle - https://wiki.winehq.org/index.php?title=Wine_User's_Guide&oldid=2519#Serial_and_Parallel_Ports
  
  :Shrug:
  
  
• evanh Posts: 15,187

  2020-12-20 01:00

  Oh, maybe it never did work. I thought it had. The old appdb listing says it didn't - https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=27799
  
  
• Wuerfel_21 Posts: 4,458

  2020-12-20 04:14

  PropTool is perfectly fine with any number COM port on Windows, that's not it.
  
  Have you tried manually selecting the serial port in the PropTool settings?
• evanh Posts: 15,187

  2020-12-20 04:41 edited 2020-12-20 04:41

  I now think simplest solution is for Chip to push his method from PNut to PropTool.