wine users - Mar 2009 - will wine support windows USB drivers?

I am running linux MEPIS 8 and have been having problems getting smithmicro
quicklink mobile to work with wine. It installs fine and runs fine but no USB
support will not detect my blackberry to use as a modem and alltel/verizon has
no plans (nor does smithmicro) to make a linux version of this any one have any
ideas?

sparkythewondersquid wrote:
> will wine support windows USB drivers?
Yes. When? No idea.

thank you  :)

sparkythewondersquid wrote:
> I am running linux MEPIS 8 and have been having problems getting smithmicro
quicklink mobile to work with wine. It installs fine and runs fine but no USB
support will not detect my blackberry to use as a modem and alltel/verizon has
no plans (nor does smithmicro) to make a linux version of this any one have any
ideas?
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I had no particular problems running my phone as a modem under Linux.  
You do not need the functionality that quicklink provides.  Take a look 
in the Linux forums and in the google internetbycellphone group.

Norm
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Sure in general you need drivers for a device to use it on Linux. This question
is more about a class of programs in which you could say the program itself is
the 'driver'. A lot of apps use usb in a way like you used the good old
rs232 port ('COM port'). That's the type of USB which will be
supported in Wine at some point and perhaps some very basic normal usb drivers
like ones for reading keys from dongles (copy protection).

So what won't work is installing the HP drivers for your new all-in-one
printer for that you need a native driver.