Post by g3nrw on Jul 13, 2009 10:21:21 GMT -5
I'm trying to make AIM 684a run under openSuSe 11.0, KDE3.5 and wine-1.0-rc3. The hardware serial connection is via a USB port.
Two issues arising:
(MODIFIED FOLLOWING FURTHER INVESTIGATION)
1. When starting the program, AIM 684a complains that there is no communication with the hardware.
'dmesg' confirms that Linux has recognized the presence of the USB serial interface:
The USB device looks like this:
To ensure access to the USB port, I added rw to all (chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0), but still the AIM software doesn't see the serial port.
[Everything works fine with the same USB/serial cable on the same computer under Windows].
2. When the AIM window is displayed it does not refresh by itself. The only way I've found to refresh the AIM window is to open another (unrelated) window and sweep it across the AIM window. The swept area is then refreshed.
Solutions anyone?
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73
Ian, G3NRW
Two issues arising:
(MODIFIED FOLLOWING FURTHER INVESTIGATION)
1. When starting the program, AIM 684a complains that there is no communication with the hardware.
'dmesg' confirms that Linux has recognized the presence of the USB serial interface:
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
pl2303 1-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
usb 1-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1: Product: USB-Serial Controller
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
The USB device looks like this:
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 2009-07-14 06:55 /dev/ttyUSB0
To ensure access to the USB port, I added rw to all (chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0), but still the AIM software doesn't see the serial port.
[Everything works fine with the same USB/serial cable on the same computer under Windows].
2. When the AIM window is displayed it does not refresh by itself. The only way I've found to refresh the AIM window is to open another (unrelated) window and sweep it across the AIM window. The swept area is then refreshed.
Solutions anyone?
--
73
Ian, G3NRW