[Wine] Installing drivers on Wine

[mascarpone]

Hello guys,

I'm trying to use my Hp 50g graphic calculator under linux.I need to run and install a program, called Conn4x, to transfer data to my calculator.

When i run it, it starts, but can't see the USB port. Under windows I had the same problem, but I fixed it but supplying the right driver to the system when i connected the calculator.

I have the drivers (a .inf, and two .dll), but how can I install them under WINE?


thank you

[Austin English]

Post by mascarpone
Hello guys,
I'm trying to use my Hp 50g graphic calculator under linux.I need to run and install a program, called Conn4x, to transfer data to my calculator.
When i run it, it starts, but can't see the USB port. Under windows I had the same problem, but I fixed it but supplying the right driver to the system when i connected the calculator.
I have the drivers (a .inf, and two .dll), but how can I install them under WINE?
thank you

Wine doesn't support windows drivers. You'll need support for it
natively in your OS.

[mascarpone]

yes, i was searching around... I wonder why I can't install a driver, but maybe the programmers know better than me :D:D:D

Are you sure there's no trick or way around?

I'm no geek, but I think that if now I would virtualize a Windows machine i would encounter the same problem, wouldn't I?


thank you very much

[John Drescher]

Post by mascarpone
yes, i was searching around... I wonder why I can't install a driver, but maybe the programmers know better than me :D:D:D

Wine does not support direct access to the hardware. This is up to the
os to handle that. And linux will not use windows drivers.

John

[Austin English]

Post by mascarpone
yes, i was searching around... I wonder why I can't install a driver, but maybe the programmers know better than me :D:D:D

That would require kernel access, wine runs in userspace.

Post by mascarpone
Are you sure there's no trick or way around?

Not that I know of, but you should try anyway. Linux may support it.
If not, file a bug with your distro. Linux driver project would also
probably be interested
(http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view) as apparently they
need work to do (http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6669895837.html).

Post by mascarpone
I'm no geek, but I think that if now I would virtualize a Windows machine i would encounter the same problem, wouldn't I?

No, that should work fine, if you allow the virtual machine usb access.

Post by mascarpone
thank you very much

No problem.

[mascarpone]

Fixed: instead of looking for support for the calculator, I tried to make the trasmission protocol working. No luck for Xmodem, but Kermit is supported, being part of a larger standard called HP talk.

The packet HPtalx do what I needed:

http://hptalx.sourceforge.net/