[Wine] will wine support windows USB drivers?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 14:19:33 CDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:16 PM, James
Mckenzie<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>slyzen wrote:
>>> I'm running wine 1.1.23 on a kubuntu jaunty and my iTunes 8.2 doesn't see my  iPhone (with OS 3.0). Do you think your method will work in my case ?
>>
>>No, itunes doesn't see any devices on Wine. It wants to talk directly to a USB device with special drivers.
>>
> Isn't there an unsupported version of Wine that will do this until the code is accepted into Wine?

Not prebuilt. There are a couple patchsets to do it. Not sure how well
it works for iPods though. I don't think iPhones work either. IIRC,
Maarten's patchset worked for original iPod's (not mini's), and was
dog slow. The etersoft usb patchset may be better, idk.

-- 
-Austin



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