wine users - Jul 2007 - WINE and USB access

Hi All,

I am working with a local middle school to replace Windows PCs with Linux PCs.
I am new to this list but have been trying to use WINE for a while.

We have a major problem that we can't seem to figure out.

We are trying to use WINE with a software called Data Studio from Pasco
Scientific ref: http://www.pasco.com/datastudio/home.html .
Pasco makes a scientific data probe, the Pasport Explorer, that connects to the
PC via the USB port and can be used to measure various items such as
temperature, pressure, etc.
The Data Studio software is a Windows software package that is used to gather
and plot the data from the USB probe.

I have been successful in using WINE to run the Data Studio software. However, I
cannot figure out how to gain access to the USB probe so the software can
retrieve the probe data via the USB port.

This is a big problem for us , as the school already owns all the Pasport
Explorer probes and requires this functionality for Linux to be a successful
replacement to Windows.

Does anyone know how a Windows program operating in Linux with WINE can access a
device on the USB port?

Any help is appreciated 

Jim

Because your "USB" device don't require high bandwidth it is
possible that
your USB device is usb-tty converter. If so then I will explain how to use it 
with WINE and what should be done to make it work. If not then you cannot use 
it with WINE.
	See configuration settings in the software, do you need to choose COM port 
there? In Windows usb-tty converters are represented as COM-ports. So if your 
program have such setting then there is good chanced it will work with WINE.
	But if your program don't using usb-tty converter and work with
"true" USB
device directly - this will not work under WINE yet; in this case you need 
something like QEmu (free) or VMWare (not-free) to use your software under 
Linux.
	As an example, I have Samsung phone not supported under Linux and USB-data 
cabel. But its USB cabel is actually a usb-tty converter so Windows software 
for my phone works perfectly with WINE on Linux.

On Sunday July 15 2007 22:57, phoenixink@comcast.net
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am working with a local middle school to replace Windows PCs with Linux
> PCs. I am new to this list but have been trying to use WINE for a while.
>
> We have a major problem that we can't seem to figure out.
>
> We are trying to use WINE with a software called Data Studio from Pasco
> Scientific ref: http://www.pasco.com/datastudio/home.html . Pasco makes a
> scientific data probe, the Pasport Explorer, that connects to the PC via
> the USB port and can be used to measure various items such as temperature,
> pressure, etc. The Data Studio software is a Windows software package that
> is used to gather and plot the data from the USB probe.
>
> I have been successful in using WINE to run the Data Studio software.
> However, I cannot figure out how to gain access to the USB probe so the
> software can retrieve the probe data via the USB port.
>
> This is a big problem for us , as the school already owns all the Pasport
> Explorer probes and requires this functionality for Linux to be a
> successful replacement to Windows.
>
> Does anyone know how a Windows program operating in Linux with WINE can
> access a device on the USB port?
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> Jim
>
>
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