I purchased H&R Block Tax cut Deluxe to do my 2004 taxes. I decided to give The Feb 2005 version of Wine under Fedora 1 a try before rebooting my machine to Windows and actually starting to work on my taxes. Wine seemed to install Tax Cut with out any problems. However, when I tried to start Tax Cut 2004 , it complained that Mozilla did not have an active X Browser and offered to go on line and get one. Unfortunately I have a WinModem and dial up connection with WalMart that only supports Connection with windows. So that seems to be the end of my attempts to do my taxes with Linux for this year. Perhaps things will work better in 12 months when I try again next year. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20050221/ee521ed4/attachment.html
RLLOYDNAVE123@wmconnect.com wrote:> I purchased H&R Block Tax cut Deluxe to do my 2004 taxes. > > I decided to give The Feb 2005 version of Wine under Fedora 1 a try > before rebooting my machine to Windows and actually starting to work on > my taxes. > > Wine seemed to install Tax Cut with out any problems. > > However, when I tried to start Tax Cut 2004 , it complained that > Mozilla did not have an > active X Browser and offered to go on line and get one. > > Unfortunately I have a WinModem and dial up connection with WalMart > that only supports Connection with windows. So that seems to be > the end of my attempts to do my taxes with Linux for this year. > > Perhaps things will work better in 12 months when I try again next year.Well I doubt that it will change much unless you get another (real) modem or you current one is suppored through linux, since wine does not provide that support, nor are ther plans to do so. To see if there is a chance to get you modem working with linux check out this site. (slow development but still active) http://start.at/modem -- Tony Lambregts
Don't give up so easily! Google your errors (exactly as they appear) :) The error you read said (exactly): "This application is requesting an ActiveX browser object but the Mozilla Active X control is currently not installed Do you wish to download and install it?" Googling the first line shows several promising hits, but most of them are deadends or involve installing IE6 under Wine (not that hard now, but only if your online under Linux). But theres also an archived wine-devel topic titled "MSCMS: new dll" that discusses adding the very message you saw. Scrolling down in the message you can read in the code that it tries to download a file. Picking the only URL in the patch in the message suggests that if you download: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/MozillaControl16.exe And install it under WINE (I'm sure you can get files between linux and win :), then you'll be set. I notice theres also a newer version available which may or may not also work: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/MozillaControl171.exe Of course the better solution is to get your internet connection and winmodem working under Linux. I'm doubt you'll find it really that hard. - Ender On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:04 -0500, RLLOYDNAVE123@wmconnect.com wrote:> I purchased H&R Block Tax cut Deluxe to do my 2004 taxes. > > I decided to give The Feb 2005 version of Wine under Fedora 1 a try > before rebooting my machine to Windows and actually starting to work > on my taxes. > > Wine seemed to install Tax Cut with out any problems. > > However, when I tried to start Tax Cut 2004 , it complained that > Mozilla did not have an > active X Browser and offered to go on line and get one. > > Unfortunately I have a WinModem and dial up connection with WalMart > that only supports Connection with windows. So that seems to be > the end of my attempts to do my taxes with Linux for this year. > > Perhaps things will work better in 12 months when I try again next > year.-- Ender <ender@enderboi.com>
--- RLLOYDNAVE123@wmconnect.com a ?crit :> I purchased H&R Block Tax cut Deluxe to do my 2004 taxes. > > I decided to give The Feb 2005 version of Wine under Fedora 1 a try > before rebooting my machine to Windows and actually starting to work on my > taxes. > > Wine seemed to install Tax Cut with out any problems. > > However, when I tried to start Tax Cut 2004 , it complained that Mozilla did > not have an > active X Browser and offered to go on line and get one.Tax Cut could only want to install the Mozilla ActiveX Control to gain the ability to display its html data in embedded forms. (Some reports and statements applications like Intuit Quicken already make use of it) Since it runs ok in Wine, you could try to install it by yourself. Its downloadable from http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm ====Usurp (aka Sylvain Petreolle) humans are like computers, yesterday the BIOS was all - today its just a word
Am Di, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:05:30 +0100 schrieb Sylvain Petreolle:> --- RLLOYDNAVE123@wmconnect.com a ?crit : > > I purchased H&R Block Tax cut Deluxe to do my 2004 taxes. > > > > I decided to give The Feb 2005 version of Wine under Fedora 1 a try > > before rebooting my machine to Windows and actually starting to work on my > > taxes. > > > > Wine seemed to install Tax Cut with out any problems. > > > > However, when I tried to start Tax Cut 2004 , it complained that Mozilla did > > not have an > > active X Browser and offered to go on line and get one. > > Tax Cut could only want to install the Mozilla ActiveX Control to gain the ability > to display its html data in embedded forms.Also you could try to just install IE6 as you already have a valid Windows license, so that Tax Cut uses this browser. Regards Joachim -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"