Chrono Connect in Linux


SpikeG from the AirgunBBS forum has kindly tested Chrono Connect under Linux and has put together this How To guide on getting the program working under Linux.

Running under Linux.

Chrono Connect runs under Wine without any trouble and will work 'out of the box' if you already have a serial port.

Unfortunately since most modern laptops are bereft of serial ports you will almost certainly need to use an adaptor, they are however, easy to setup (for once).

Installing USB-Serial adaptors

Plug in the USB-Serial Port adaptor to one of your USB ports and wait for a couple of moments, then run “dmesg”. You should see messages similar to these at the end of dmesg output.

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Unplug the device and type “lsusb”. You will see a list similar to this.

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 03f0:4f11 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05e3:1205 Genesys Logic, Inc. Afilias Optical Mouse H3003
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 15d9:0a33
Plug in the USB-Serial Port converter back, and run “lsusb” again, and you should see an additional line, like this.

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 03f0:4f11 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 4348:5523 --- --- ---
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05e3:1205 Genesys Logic, Inc. Afilias Optical Mouse H3003
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 15d9:0a33
Notice the additional line in the above code.
Now we know the vendor id and the product id of the USB-Serial Port converter, this will enable us to load the linux kernel module “usbserial” to activate the device, like this :

sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x4348 product=0x5523 (Obviously change the Vendor & Product ID to match yours)

Run “dmesg” again and you shall see lines similar like this :

usbserial_generic 1-1:1.0: generic converter detected
usb 1-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
As you can see, the new serial port device is mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0. You can instruct Ubuntu to load this module automatically by include the line : “usbserial vendor=0×4348 product=0×5523? inside “/etc/modules” file.

Remapping to "Com" port under wine.

To give the /dev/ttyUSB0 a generic "Com" under wine simply edit wine.conf to contain the following lines.

[serialports]
Com1=/dev/ttyUSB0
You can now use Com1 as your ChronoConnect port.

Sp!ke.