wine users - Mar 2007 - Interesting problem getting wine onto my computer

I live in Bangladesh and have just installed Ubuntu dapper drake onto
my shiny new desktop.  The village where I live has no land lines or
broad band so I connect to the internet through my old laptop using a
GPRS mobile phone and Nokia PC suite run on Windows XP.  I want to
download wine onto my new computer so I can run PC suite and can
continue accessing the internet via mobile but using Ubuntu.  However,
I cannot run the internet on Ubuntu until I install wine and PC
suite.  Is it possible to download wine from an internet cafe onto a
flash drive and then get ubuntu to load wine from the flash drive?  If
so, could some-one explain it in REALLY simple terms?

allans@mail2web.com wrote:
> continue accessing the internet via mobile but using Ubuntu.  However,
> I cannot run the internet on Ubuntu until I install wine and PC
> suite.  Is it possible to download wine from an internet cafe onto a
How exactly are you going to connect the mobile to your Ubuntu machine?
Unless you use a serial port (or a pseudo-serial IR port), the Nokia PC
Suite won't do you much good. There are native solutions for using GPRS
with linux.

Daniel
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Which wine version? Self compiled or prepackaged?

Thanks Daniel,
I forgot to say that we currently connect the mobile to our laptop
with a DKU5 data cable and plan to do the same our Ubuntu desktop.
What are the native solutions for using GPRS with Linux (we looked at
GPRSEC but it does not support any Bangladesh mobile communications
providers) and how do you get the PC to recognise the phone and cable,
if you use them?

allans@mail2web.com wrote:
> I forgot to say that we currently connect the mobile to our laptop
> with a DKU5 data cable and plan to do the same our Ubuntu desktop.
Never heard of something like that.
> What are the native solutions for using GPRS with Linux (we looked at
> GPRSEC but it does not support any Bangladesh mobile communications
> providers) and how do you get the PC to recognise the phone and cable,
> if you use them?
I have no experience with that. However, from what I can see you just
need to load the right drivers so your mobile can be used as a modem,
from which point on you just need to set up ppp.

Daniel

P.S. Thinking about it again, the Nokia PC Suite could not possibly help
you.
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Read the Wine FAQ: http://winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index
Read the Wine User Guide: http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index
When you post:
Which wine version? Self compiled or prepackaged?

Thanks again Daniel.  But where do we get the drivers from?

On Mar 14, 8:03 am, all...@mail2web.com wrote:
> Thanks again Daniel.  But where do we get the drivers from?
Try searching with Google:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=DKU5+linux