[Wine] OSX Wine and USB Drivers

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 19:42:54 CDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:29 PM,
nucleardreamer<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I feel like a big fat noob. I know that autodetect from device isnt supported yet (says so on the selection box, under the drives tab of winecfg) but I was curious if I could get some help.
>
> I have a couple different USB devices, a Ralink based wifi adaptor and a motorola V3 phone. There are drivers for both that I have, and work nativly on windows.
>
> On native windows, autodetect devices takes care of selecting whatever is plugged in. I hate windows.
>
> My question: Is there a way I can install or select drivers to be assigned to a USB device? In osx /dev is foreign to me, but im pretty sure the motorola is running under /dev/tty.usbmodem411

No. Wine doesn't support hardware drivers. That detection is to detect
hard drives/disk devices, not random hardware.

-- 
-Austin



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