One of the issues I’ve been battling since making the switch to Linux is getting my radio programming software to work. The apps run under Wine but I couldn’t get my USB/serial adapter to be recognized by the software.

I finally had success tonight. It was so simple I’m kicking myself. All I needed to do was create a symbolic link from the device to the COM port I wanted it assigned to. So the syntax is:

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/comx

where ‘x’ is the port number. Works like a dream!