How to get serial ports to be recognised in wine operating under Ubuntu 14.04

[xprofian]

I run ubuntu 14.04 in my computer but I have a need to access the serial ports from my wine applications. The ubuntu system recognizes the ports and provides ttyS0 etc. to which I have linked. The link is located in the "dosdevices" directory of wine and was created from the"ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1" command line. The comm ports are not recognized by wine though Ubuntu is happy to use them.
I am a newbie at this, can anyone help? Please....

 

[Alabalcho]

It seems you've set them the right way (I have just compared with what works for me, also no 14.04 LTS). Make sure you've given yourself read/write rights to /dev/ttyXXX, or your user is member of dialout group. For test, you can try

sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyXXX

 

[kanewolf]

This page -- https://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to-configure says the link should be in the .wine subdirectory under your home directory....

 

[xprofian]

It seems you've set them the right way (I have just compared with what works for me, also no 14.04 LTS). Make sure you've given yourself read/write rights to /dev/ttyXXX, or your user is member of dialout group. For test, you can try

sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyXXX

Hi Alabalcho. Thanks for your comments. I have tried your suggestion but unfortunately it made no difference that I could determine.
xprofian

 

[Alabalcho]

Download a terminal emiulator (eg Putty, you can "sudo aptget install putty" it), make sure you can access your serial port without elevated privileges.

Other than that - you should probably go to Wine forums for more help.