wine users - Aug 2009 - Will WINE help me get the internet on Puppy Linux?

I'm currently trying to swap a very old computer over to Puppy Linux so that
it will work better. Puppy installed fine and is working beautifully and i have
no problems except that I can't get the Internet to work.

My computer:

10 year old IBM Aptiva
Windows XP
Intel Pentium 3 - 499 MHz,
192MB RAM,
12 GB hard drive (7GB free)

My internet: 

3g Dongel HUAWEI Model:E160g 

This dongel contains software for windows and mac that automatically installs,
(actually it doesn't even work properly on mac, but that's not
important)  but it's not supported on linux


Is there a way for me to get that software from windows to linux (my drive is
partitioned and semi dual booted (Puppy Linux is unique in that it allows you to
run from the live cd but still save things and save changes onto your hard
drive)
And will WINE help me to do this?

I assume I'll have to run wine from puppy linux so is it possible to
download it on windows and save it to a cd so that I can run it in puppy?


Thanks for any help or advice anyone can give me. Help me save the life of my
computer!

>I'm currently trying to swap a very old computer over to Puppy Linux so
that it will work better. Puppy installed
>fine and is working beautifully and i have no problems except that I
can't get the Internet to work.
>
>
>3g Dongel HUAWEI Model:E160g 
>
>This dongel contains software for windows and mac that automatically
installs, (actually it doesn't even work
>properly on mac, but that's not important)  but it's not supported
on linux
If the dongle shows up as a physical hard drive on Windows, then you might get
it to work.  If it does not show as a drive, then Wine will not support it as
Wine is produced.  You might have luck building your own version of Wine with
USB device support.  There is a description on the process on the Wine Wiki.

James McKenzie

2009/8/18 RabbitWho <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> I'm currently trying to swap a very old computer over to Puppy Linux so
that it will work better. Puppy installed fine and is working beautifully and i
have no problems except that I can't get the Internet to work.
> My internet:
> 3g Dongel HUAWEI Model:E160g
> This dongel contains software for windows and mac that automatically
installs, (actually it doesn't even work properly on mac, but that's not
important) ?but it's not supported on linux

Wine won't help it connect - network connection stuff would have to be
done at the Linux level.

But I do know that model of dongle works just fine on Ubuntu, so it
should be possible to get it working on Puppy. (That machine could run
Xubuntu just about okay - main constraint being memory.)


- d.

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/8/18 RabbitWho <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> 
> 
> > I'm currently trying to swap a very old computer over to Puppy
Linux so that it will work better. Puppy installed fine and is working
beautifully and i have no problems except that I can't get the Internet to
work.
> > My internet:
> > 3g Dongel HUAWEI Model:E160g
> > This dongel contains software for windows and mac that automatically
installs, (actually it doesn't even work properly on mac, but that's not
important) ??but it's not supported on linux
> > 
> 
> 
> Wine won't help it connect - network connection stuff would have to be
> done at the Linux level.
> 
> But I do know that model of dongle works just fine on Ubuntu, so it
> should be possible to get it working on Puppy. (That machine could run
> Xubuntu just about okay - main constraint being memory.)
> 
> 
> - d.

Aye it works on Ubuntu alright! We just plugged it in (on a different computer) 
and POOF!
There are a list of devices on puppy that I assume will make it go poof like
this, but the HUAWEI one isn't one of them. My cousin tried downloading a
patch for it, but then it didn't work and he got annoyed and gave up.
I'd really appreciate any suggestions!
Windows XP is working reasonably okay on the computer, but quite slowly, someone
on the Ubuntu forum told me they wouldn't expect a performance boost from
switching from XP to Xubuntu, and my computer only barely reaches the minimum
standards for Xubuntu anyway. I will try it out as a last resort though. RAM is
the big issue all the time.
Puppy doesn't even use a fraction of it, it's wonderful.. if only I
could sort out this one little problem.. but even if there's no solution
now, there are people writing things for it every day, I'll get there
eventually.

So we know ubuntu can recognize it, is there away to just apply that to Puppy? 

> 
> If the dongle shows up as a physical hard drive on Windows, then you might
get it to work.
> James McKenzie

It does indeed! 

It's worth a shot anyway, the more I fail the more I learn.