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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : ZORIN WINE & USB
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| PeterB Guru  Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
G'Day All In my search for a replacement for W7 I installed Linux Mint and after a lot of problems got the thing to run Arduino & MMedit. Then in a burst of over confidence I decided to try Zorin. It installed with no problems until I went looking for Wine. Zorin did come with wine but for Zorin 15 it is left out because 15 is intended for the Commercial world and wine has a security risk so there. So I installed Wine and now I have the usual problem of talking to USB ports. I am in the dialout group. When I try to do the symbolic link thing I get, failed to create symbolic link ............. file exists.(the dots are the bit I put in) Zorin does look good, if I can only get it to work. And I have run out of cab. sav.  Peter Edited 2019-08-07 14:47 by PeterB |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
When you say "the dots are the bit I put in" I suspect no-one can diagnose it without more detail. Sorry, can't help with the other kind of wine! John |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
G'Day John You mean you can't read dots? That's the "sudo ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com7" bit. I got lazy. PUTTY can see my E64 Does that mean there is a symbolic link? This linux thing reminds me of how my wife drove a car. She just knew that pushing that and pulling this made it go. All with no understanding of what she was doing. And she drove very well. I am not coping very well but I will. If you fix my problem I will send you some cab.sav. Peter |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Yes it should mean the "file" (i.e. name) already exists. You can check each of the ones you posted using ls, such as ls -ld /dev/ttyACM0 ls -ld ~/.wine/dosdevices/com7 (I've added the d to make sure that in the rather odd situation the file is a directory we find out!) If they exist, I suppose the next question is are they right... It's encouraging that putty is happy but what file (name) is it using? John (no wine needed, but thanks for the offer) |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
If I put in ls -ld/dev/ttyACM0 I get invalid option ls: -- '/' And I have seen that before in my efforts. Are you sure about the wine? Peter |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
Some time ago I tried to get onto the Zorin forum. It fell in a heap. This time I gave it my best and through gritted teeth, I managed to get there. And that took me to the unofficial manual and then a page on wine and that is interesting. So I will go back a few steps and redo some things. I am confident that this is going to work. And I think I know where I can get some cab. sav. Happy days  Peter |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
You need a space (as in my previous post) between the -ld and the name (the /dev/stuff). The ls is the command name, the -ld are arguments (aka parameters aka options aka flags) and the rest is/are names of things you want ls to do a -ld listing of. Good offer on the wine but I'm drinking enough as it is! John (yayy - Edit is working.) Edited 2019-08-08 22:52 by JohnS |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
And that is the risk of trying to do something with no understanding and old eyes. So then I get /dev/ttyACM0 and /home/peter/.wine/dosdevices/com7 Friday is a busy day for me so I haven't done anything yet. But I do have 175 pages of manual to read. Peter |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
So they both exist, as it looked from your post. That means either the equivalent of the ln -s has already been done, so it's not needed, or it is needed but there's a file (name) in the way. As you say putty works that may well mean the former, i.e. all is OK. Is there something (other than the ln -s failing) that makes you think all is not OK? John |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
If I try to connect MMEDIT to com7 I get com port error I also have Arduino installed and when I open up port I get a list of unpteen ports. Selecting port7 does nothing. I can't see anything else, no smoke, no noise, just no comms. It's good of you to help but don't let it drive you to madness. I started this in the hope that somebody would leap in with "ZORIN has this different way of doing xyz" Peter Edited 2019-08-09 16:17 by PeterB |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5091 |
Hi Peter, I have not used ZORIN, but I am using Lubuntu, GalliumOS, Puppy Linux, ElementaryOS (yes there are many flavours of Linux). I am using wine for a different reason, but also need a com port. To be honest, You are most unlucky to have selected a ZORIN build that did not have wine installed. And getting serial ports to work is something that is not configured default. Although the solution is quite simple. If I look at your serial port configuration, why did you choose com7..? Not all software can handle beyond com4. My configuration consists of: sudo ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 for Arduino UNO and Micromite sudo ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com2 for Arduino NANO and typical serial port adapters like for ArmmiteF4 In simple terms the command "ln" makes a link. And it links the new name (com7) you have given it to the Linux serial device "ttyACM0". Since Wine searches for serial ports in the folder ~/.win/dosdevices/ , that is where the link is placed. Linux has all devices (serial ports, but also harddisks, etc..) in the folder /dev/ Question: Do you start Arduino in Wine (Windows?) or did you install Arduino native in Linux? If Arduino is installed in Wine you should use serial port COM7 (or in my case COM1) If Arduino is installed in Linux, you should search for a serial port named "ttyACM0" of "ttyUSB0". Volhout Edited 2019-08-09 17:24 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
G'Day Volhout Both return failed to create symbolic link ......................file exists Arduino is installed in wine Thanks for your interest Peter |
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Quazee137 Guru Joined: 07/08/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 593 |
Awhile back in working with Rob getting GFXTerm to run. I found that wine makes com1 through com35 as soon as GFXTerm is ran and they don't seem to work. So I go into .wine/dosdevices and delete them. Then I make new links for the ttyUSBx and/or ttyAMCx that I need. And it works. a bash script could delete the non working links and create new ones. Edited 2019-08-09 18:38 by Quazee137 |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
G'Day Quazee I had a dosdevices full of coms which I cleaned out and now have com1 and com2 but with no improvement, well not that I can see. The system talks about com1 and COM1, should I be concerned? Peter |
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| Quazee137 Guru Joined: 07/08/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 593 |
Have a play with this test script I saved it as winecomms.sh in my MMBASIC/tools folder then with NEMO went there and back clicked on it then properties and under permissions set execute. it'll show you linux USB's and ACM's then wines comm's then relink them if you want. if you look through the ls of wine comms you'll see where wine linked them. my two USB's where at COMM34 and COMM35 to me its just easier to relink them to the first 8 COMM's #!/bin/bash echo "------- USB's ---------" ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* echo echo "------- ACM's ---------" ls -l /dev/ttyACM* echo "press Enter to see wine comm's" echo "----- dosdevices ------" ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/com* echo "press Enter to redo wine comm's ^C to exit" read $key rm ~/.wine/dosdevices/com* ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com2 ln -s /dev/ttyUSB2 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com3 ln -s /dev/ttyUSB3 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com4 ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com5 ln -s /dev/ttyACM1 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com6 ln -s /dev/ttyACM2 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com7 ln -s /dev/ttyACM3 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com8 ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/com* echo echo "press Enter" read $key exit Edited 2019-08-09 20:59 by Quazee137 |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
Good Morning / Evening Quazee137 Well done! Your code gave me ACM0 on com33 and now I have Arduino and MMEDIT working. I need to do a lot more to get anywhere near understanding it but thought I should report in so you can get a good nights sleep  I am really looking forward to seeing what Zorin can do in the hands of an idiot. Thanks for your input and John & Volhout also. Life is good. Peter |
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| Quazee137 Guru Joined: 07/08/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 593 |
Peter here is the mites.sh I use daily to get all the little ones talking.  mites.sh #!/bin/bash if [ -e "/dev/ttyUSB0" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyUSB0" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyUSB1" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyUSB1" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyUSB2" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyUSB2" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyUSB3" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyUSB3" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyUSB4" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyUSB4" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyUSB5" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyUSB5" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyACM0" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyACM0" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyACM1" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyACM1" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyACM2" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyACM2" ;fi if [ -e "/dev/ttyACM3" ] ; then gnome-terminal -e "minicom --color=on ttyACM3" ;fi # tile the comm screens 2 rows 4 cols on my desktop #2 #x-tile g 2 4 Have FUN For who knows why I have been on downunder time most my life. Edited 2019-08-10 11:01 by Quazee137 |
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| PeterB Guru Joined: 05/02/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 655 |
Quazee Thanks for that, I think I understand it. I suspect Grogster is on his way to see you. It has been talked about before but the world needs a wine / LINUX package to simplify this process. A PLUG N PLAY for ports. Peter I just noticed the downunder time which explains why you never sleep. Is it because of TBS? P Edited 2019-08-10 11:07 by PeterB |
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