[Bug 34497] New: ProAIS2 Serial Port enumeration requires Registry Local_Machine/=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6?=/Enum/SERIAL/COM1/COM1/*

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34497

Bug #: 34497
           Summary: ProAIS2 Serial Port enumeration requires Registry
                    Local_Machine/…/Enum/SERIAL/COM1/COM1/*
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

ProAIS2 (Marine AIS software from SRT in the UK, and re-badged by large numbers
of OEMs) performs Serial Port detection by enumerating the registry.  The
following keys need to be added:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SERIAL\COM1\COM1]
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"FriendlyName"="Serial Port (COM1)"
"PortName"="COM1"

in addition to the matching

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

If only the ClassGUID/FriendlyName are set, then the port will be found, but
immediately switched to in-case.  PortName is being prefixed with "\."
("\\.\") to form "\.\COM1".

Kudos to Doug Brown for tracking down most of the issue:

http://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2013/03/getting-x-ctu-in-wine-to-detect-you...

[Bug 34497] ProAIS2 Serial Port enumeration requires Registry Local_Machine/=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6?=/Enum/SERIAL/COM1/COM1/*

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Eric Christensen  changed:

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Helder 'Lthere' Magalhães  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Helder 'Lthere' Magalhães  ---
This seems to be a duplicate of Bug 1700 (in particular, see Bug 1700 comment
13).

[Bug 34497] ProAIS2 Serial Port enumeration requires Registry Local_Machine/=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6?=/Enum/SERIAL/COM1/COM1/*

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--- Comment #2 from Austin English  ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for over a
year. Is this still an issue in current (1.7.51 or newer) wine?

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--- Comment #3 from [e-mail] ---
Indeed seems dupe, but Does wine contain all the fields mentioned at commment
1?

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Ken Sharp  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Ken Sharp  ---
This was opened three years after the other bug was closed, but then we have no
idea what version of Wine the OP was using.

Nonetheless the OP hasn't responded in ten years, so who's going to test the
fix?

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--- Comment #5 from Paul Sladen  ---
How would you wish the OP to respond? ;-)

The ground debugging was done by Doug Brown, using another piece of other
unrelated piece of software that enumerates available [serial] ports, by first
requesting the "FriendlyName" for each available port.

All software that uses such mechanisms will fails when both a "FriendlyName"
and "PortName" have not been automatically provided by Wine.

Yes, it is probably a terrible method; but that's also the reality...