wine users - Aug 2006 - USB support in wine for TDK CD/DVD Print Labeller

Hi

Does anybody know whether wine works with USB ports or not ?

The reason I ask is that I'm trying to get the application TDK CD/DVD 
Printer Labeller Software running, the software appears to work except 
for the fact it complains that "The printer is turned off or not 
connected to the computer".

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=3751

Is there some other layer of software that needs to be installed for USB 
to work ?

I'm running Suse 9.3 and even without wine KDE doesn't appear to  
ackowledge that  I've plugged a USB device in.  I guess I'm expecting a 
little icon to pop up in the right hand corner telling me I've got new 
hardware, however maybe it doesn't do that ?

If I use YAST to check out the hardware info, it does see the USB ports 
and it even recognises a casio unclassified device plugged in, so I 
guess it's possibly a wine problem, are there any checks that I can 
perform in wine regarding USB ?

Nick

On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:52, Nick Law wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anybody know whether wine works with USB ports or not ?
>
> The reason I ask is that I'm trying to get the application TDK CD/DVD
> Printer Labeller Software running, the software appears to work except
> for the fact it complains that "The printer is turned off or not
> connected to the computer".
>
> http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=3751
>
> Is there some other layer of software that needs to be installed for USB
> to work ?
>
> I'm running Suse 9.3 and even without wine KDE doesn't appear to
> ackowledge that  I've plugged a USB device in.  I guess I'm
expecting a
> little icon to pop up in the right hand corner telling me I've got new
> hardware, however maybe it doesn't do that ?
>
> If I use YAST to check out the hardware info, it does see the USB ports
> and it even recognises a casio unclassified device plugged in, so I
> guess it's possibly a wine problem, are there any checks that I can
> perform in wine regarding USB ?
>
> Nick
>
hi Nick

wine can use USB printers, but it's not done the way you tried. What you
need
to do is configure cups (the default linux printer daemon, SuSE probably has 
a printer setup tool in some system control panel thing) so it knows your 
printer. As soon as linux knows your printer, wine should aswell