Hello everyone,
I am starting this forum with some news of progress on making WriteLog work under Linux.
My main help is being provided by KB1EDE, David, one of my three brothers.
So far we have made some progress. I have the K1EL keyer. We have the keyer test program
working fine under crossover. A good starting point for figuring out what
to do is found on the main Crossover documentation.
This is very useful for understanding how to make USB and COM ports work under this Linux emulation of
Windows. I expect it will also work with the current version of Wine that is available for most distrubtions
of Linux. We are currently using Fedora F9 version. The F10 distribution just was released and we have not tried
that yet. The machine we are using currently (we have several to try later) is an AMD X86_64 dual core. We have
plug-in hard drives which let us test several different versions of releases etc. Hard drives are very cheap!
From there to get started we did read lots of stuff on this site in detail and I became an "advocate" as per their
offer to get the latest versiom of crossover. It is Wine in the commercial form. If you want to help us I suggest
signing up as an advocate so you can get the latest builds of crossover which we will be working with.
So far I have found that the following things work OK:
rttywrite.exe
Packet.exe
bandmap.exe comes up, I have not gone far with that yet but it should work.
The main writelog program does install but has errors and does not yet run.
The K1EL program: wktest.exe also works fine when you do the necessary links for
any com port within Linux. I will give you details on how to do that in the next post.
Quite simple and you will learn a lot about Linux when you do that!!
I hope this gives you some starting points and information on where I am headed so
far.
-Alan, W1CCE