[Wine] Hamlet' question about wine and scanner: to be or not to be (supported)?

[Stefan Leichter]

Am Donnerstag, 29. Dezember 2005 23:32 schrieb f_sophia:
> Hi,
>
> I have an old partport optical scanner (an LG Scanwork 36a)...
> Of course,I can't use this scanner with linux (no driver).
> So, I'm trying to install win-driver with wine. :-)
> I read documentation (unfortunately insufficient) and... I fell in an
> "Hamlet' question"!
>
> The wine user manual asserts that I can install scanner's win-driver in
> wine, unfortunately with too much vagueness about "how".
>
> "Frank's corner" (FAQ page), on the contrary:
> [quotes]
> Q: Can I use Windows drivers with Wine?
> A: No
> [unquotes]
>
>
> The question is:
> Can I use win-driver for my scanner?
> If yes, how?
> Any help is very welcomed.
>
Hello Antonio,

at least one person was able to run his scanner software in wine, see: 
http://www2.autistici.org/tamarhack/wiki.htm

Bye Stefan