wine users - Oct 2010 - Firmware update via USB to Sony NEX camera

Hello.

I would like to update my newly acquired Sony NEX camera's firmware.  The
supplied firmware is packaged in a .exe that's listed on Sony's site as
compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.  I ran the .exe under WINE, which
was set to XP.  The program executes and opens its dialog.  The first thing it
does is try to find the camera, connected via USB, and determine the current
firmware version.  Unfortunately, it is unable to find the camera.

1. switch camera to Mass Storage mode
2. plug camera into USB 2.0 port
3. mount camera as /media/disk
4. execute WINE with .exe
5. tell .exe to start the firmware update

6. camera not found

I've tried WINE 1.1.28, 1.3.3 and eventually 1.3.4 with a USB patch I found
at this location:

ftp://ftp.etersoft.ru/pub/people/amorozov/usb/1.3.3/

I did a "wineconsole cmd" and D: did work properly to access the
camera as a mass storage device, when D: was assigned as /media/disk.

Any suggestions on what I might try next?  Any debugging switches I can toggle
on to provide more info on what is happen?

Thanks!

P.S.  I have a similar thread on openSUSE forums, but the thread has run
it's course, with the conclusion being to install Windows to avoid the
hassle.  I'm not ready to give up yet!

On 10/7/10 4:47 PM, linuxvinh wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I would like to update my newly acquired Sony NEX camera's firmware. 
The supplied firmware is packaged in a .exe that's listed on Sony's site
as compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.  I ran the .exe under WINE,
which was set to XP.  The program executes and opens its dialog.  The first
thing it does is try to find the camera, connected via USB, and determine the
current firmware version.  Unfortunately, it is unable to find the camera.
>
Sad to say, but these things need either special drivers, which Wine 
does not support, or direct access to the hardware, which Linux may or 
may not support.

You may have some luck patching Wine with the USB driver 'hack' that is 
referenced on the Wine Wiki.

James McKenzie

linuxvinh wrote:
> Firmware update via USB to Sony NEX camera
Wine does not communicate directly to USB devices, unless it's a
USB->Serial device. I doubt your camera is a serial device.