wine and device installation?

Renato Salles rsalles at rsnetservices.com.br
Fri Apr 16 10:39:23 CDT 2004


Hello Matthias,

Matthias Schweinoch disse:
> hi all,
>
####stripped

> ah, so the question really is: how can i "trick" the application into
> thinking an ethernet adapter is present? as far as i know, the app only
> requires the device driver to be present, and doesn't require any
> additional protocols (such as TCP/IP)...
>
> any ideas or suggestions?

Well, in fact i have a sugestion: the ethernet interface can exist only in
kernel space - as a tun/tap interface, or even as a "dummy" interface -
and in this case you can install a "dummy" device in your linux box and
attrib a real ip number and netmask to it. If you have another device
attached to your linux box, not an ethernet device, with a ip number
already configured to it, you can route the packets from the "dummy"
interface (visible to wine, i guess) to the this one.
I don't know if it will work, but you can give it a try.

HTH,

RSalles


>
> thanks for the help in advance.
>
> matthias
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