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On 03/19 09:37, Kai Krakow wrote: |
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> Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:09:51 +0100 |
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> schrieb tuxic@××××××.de: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I have a smart NiMH-charger with serial port (normally used to |
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> > dump chargeing curves to the PC). |
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> > The chargers firmware can bei flashed with a flashtool provided |
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> > by the vendor. The communication is via serial port. I have |
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> > a PCI=>serial.ports-card installed in my PC. |
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> > |
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> > The command |
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> > |
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> > file <flashing tool> |
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> > results in this information |
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> > |
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> > PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows |
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> > |
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> > . As Linux user by heart I have no Windows. |
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> > |
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> > May the attempt to install wine and use it for this purpose |
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> > a thinkable way or are the precoditions that way, that it |
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> > is due to those a NO-NO...? |
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> Flashing via serial port should be no problem from within Wine. It |
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> requires no special driver implementation. |
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> However, if the hardware implements its own driver behind the serial |
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> port, it won't work anyways because on the Wine side there will be no |
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> such driver. |
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> So I think, it should either work or fail early without doing damage. |
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> > Does anyone have experience with such an attempt? |
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> I'm usually doing such things from VirtualBox by passing through the |
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> hardware (usually USB, that's easily done from within the GUI). |
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> VirtualBox can also pass COM ports to the VM. You may want to try that |
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> as a second chance. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Kai |
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> Replies to list-only preferred. |
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Hi Kai (that's a rhyme! :) |
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I have installed Virtualbox already and use the Linux Image I |
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installed there for banking purposes only. Feels more secure. |
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I would prefer the WIndows-in-a-(virtual)box-solution) as you |
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do -- if I would own a Windows installation disc. But do not. |
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But it is good to know, that the wine-workaround would either |
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work or fail too early to damage anything. |
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Is there anything important to know before doing an emerge |
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of wine (need I more than app-emulation/wine?) -- I have |
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literally no experience with this emulator - the flashing |
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tool is a 32bit gui application...) ??? |
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Cheers |
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Meino |
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