wine users - Nov 2005 - Newbie: any hope of running a dongle-protected app? Aladdin HASP on LPT1...

Hi,

I'm a complete Wine newbie, still in the "Shock and Awe" stage...
so
apologies for obvious stupidities. I'm trying to run a VB6 app, probably 
1999-vintage, under Wine. It is protected by a parallel port dongle from 
Aladdin. The app installs, the HASP drivers (latest version) apparently 
install, but when I run the app it tells me "HASP device driver not 
loaded". I'm starting to dig through debug logs for more info, but 
before I start on this....

    - is this insane?
Is there any reasonable hope that even if I can get the app to 
communicate with the HASP device driver, I will then be able to get the 
"device driver" to communicate with the dongle on LPT1?

I believe the HASP driver is haspds_windows.dll - there are also a bunch 
of VXD files, which according to the FAQs won't work on Wine. have I 
understood correctly these VXDs wouldn't be used on a WinXP box? The app 
runs fine on XP (so long as the dongle is attached).

If this is a hopeless cause I'll just have to dual-boot, use VMWare or 
whatever.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA,
Thomas.

System: Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-r2 Wine 20050725 -- waiting for an ebuild of 
Wine 0.9 :-)

Thomas Nichols schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a complete Wine newbie, still in the "Shock and Awe"
stage... so
> apologies for obvious stupidities. I'm trying to run a VB6 app,
probably
> 1999-vintage, under Wine. It is protected by a parallel port dongle from
> Aladdin. The app installs, the HASP drivers (latest version) apparently
> install, but when I run the app it tells me "HASP device driver not
> loaded". I'm starting to dig through debug logs for more info, but
> before I start on this....
> 
>    - is this insane?
> Is there any reasonable hope that even if I can get the app to
> communicate with the HASP device driver, I will then be able to get the
> "device driver" to communicate with the dongle on LPT1?
Try to set the windows version, add the following registry keys
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-4\Software\Wine\VDM\Ports]
"read"="0x278-0x27f,0x378-0x37f"
"write"="0x278-0x27f,0x378-0x37f"

and run wine as root. That's how I made an eprom burner that has to do
direct parallel port access work.

Philipp