http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2898
------- Additional Comments From imaxfun@gmail.com 2006-14-11 21:00 ------- In Bug 4633 there's some valuable analysis of the problem and ways to circumvent this problem. They note that windows version must be set to Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 to avoid a crash when attempting serial communications.