[Bug 14534] New: Serial to USB adapter not functioning as well as in Windows

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14534

Summary: Serial to USB adapter not functioning as well as in
                    Windows
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I have some software installed in Windows and in Linux through wine, and the
software needs to connect to COM1-COM4.  I'm using a Serial to USB adapter to
attach my device (a Sick LMS291 LIDAR module, if that helps) to my laptop.  In
Windows, the adapter gets recognized as COM3, and I put that into the software
that came with the module, and it runs fine.  At first when I used the software
in Linux through wine, it didn't recognize the serial to USB adapter, but after
doing the following:

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com4

the software recognized COM4 and let me use the port.  However, the data (which
is constantly streaming) is much more choppy than in Windows, and I frequently
have to hit "reconnect" to reestablish the data communication.  I've searched a
lot for a way to fix this, but I couldn't find anything, so I wanted to see if
it is a bug or if I'm just not configuring something properly.

I'm using wine-1.1.1 in Ubuntu 8.04.