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Necessary Wine config info

For anyone trying to run GSAK with wine, this might be a useful tip:

You need to add serial ports to your wine configuration if using a win2000 bottle. The problem is that there isn't a lot of convenient info on how to do this. I had to hunt this down on a blog and thought it should be where GSAK users can get to it a little more easily:

[Hardware\Devicemap\Serialcomm] 1015709345
"Serial0"="COM1"
"Serial1"="COM2"
"Serial2"="COM3"
"Serial3"="COM4"

This should be added to your system.reg file. This will enable GSAK to actually SEE your serial ports (as part of the drop down list in the GPS configuration). It isn't a piece of info that is easy to locate however as there doesn't seem any OTHER way to add this to the registry. REGEDIT will not let you add this under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP", so you have to add it manually.

Additionally, don't forget to do the following:

ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1:

or something similar so that wine actually has a link to the proper "windows" device, in this case "com1:" ...

This looks like it might help with a similar problem:

MacBook Pro, MapSource 5.4 KeySpan USA-19Qi

I can see my maps, but cannot connect to an eTrex Vista

I have tried:

cd ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/win98/dosdevices
ln -s /dev/tty.KeySerial1 com1:

My current system.reg file says:

[Hardware\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM] 1188656318
@=""

Should I change it to:

[Hardware\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM] 1188656318
"Serial0"="COM1"

What is the @="" for?

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