I feel like a big fat noob. I know that autodetect from device isnt supported yet (says so on the selection box, under the drives tab of winecfg) but I was curious if I could get some help. I have a couple different USB devices, a Ralink based wifi adaptor and a motorola V3 phone. There are drivers for both that I have, and work nativly on windows. On native windows, autodetect devices takes care of selecting whatever is plugged in. I hate windows. My question: Is there a way I can install or select drivers to be assigned to a USB device? In osx /dev is foreign to me, but im pretty sure the motorola is running under /dev/tty.usbmodem411
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:29 PM, nucleardreamer<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I feel like a big fat noob. I know that autodetect from device isnt supported yet (says so on the selection box, under the drives tab of winecfg) but I was curious if I could get some help. > > I have a couple different USB devices, a Ralink based wifi adaptor and a motorola V3 phone. There are drivers for both that I have, and work nativly on windows. > > On native windows, autodetect devices takes care of selecting whatever is plugged in. I hate windows. > > My question: Is there a way I can install or select drivers to be assigned to a USB device? In osx /dev is foreign to me, but im pretty sure the motorola is running under /dev/tty.usbmodem411No. Wine doesn't support hardware drivers. That detection is to detect hard drives/disk devices, not random hardware. -- -Austin
That clears up a lot of what I was looking for. If I have a device that I will be using with a program (which already has drivers loaded for the device) is there a way I can specify in the winecfg where that device is?
I am using a motorola v3 phone as the device i'm trying to read. That makes sense now. Since OSX only reads the device as a serial device with no drivers, you are saying there is no way I can interact with it via wine? Does wine support any kind of serial device interaction at all? Is there a way I can mount the device and then add it as a drive in wine? I guess the part that I don't understand about wine is how it can interact with drives but not devices. what im trying to do is config the phone via software thats windows native, basically. I already knew it more than likely not possible, but it's good to know about how wine works.
ahhhh, ok, that makes sense! stupid windows...
nucleardreamer wrote:> Does wine support any kind of serial device interaction at all?Yes, if this is USB->serial type of device (seems like it is) just make a symlink: Code: ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com4 Then, hopefully, your program will see it.