The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
how to get Wine to recognize the GPS?
by Susan Hollow on Thursday January 13th 2011, 4:36
I have done the symbolic link thing
"ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1"
but mapsource (or wine or both) still won't recognize the device (Etrex Vista HCx). Any help is greatly appreciated.