http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811
--- Comment #8 from RBEmerson n5470@pinefields.com 2008-03-03 18:40:45 --- (In reply to comment #7)
This is probably due to how the app is enumerating the COM ports. On the hunch that it's using setupapi, could you try the workaround in bug 9902? Here's the .reg file to import from that bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=10210
You could also attach a +setupapi trace to confirm the hunch.
I read the bug comments (I've used the app, SOB, under Windows - there are many similarities in function, if not form, with CE) and .reg file - this sounds like a promising route.
Being a noob and wanting to avoid complicating things with a bad guess on my part, would someone please post the type-in to add the .reg file cleanly? Ditto for using "+setupapi" in the right place.