[Wine] Test network under wine

[A. Tres Finocchiaro]

Oliver,

Thanks for the detailed answers.  Did you happen to try Firefox for
Windows in Wine as well?

-Tres

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Oliver aka v1k1ng0 <ofabelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I reply between lines ...
>
> 2009/3/7 A. Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchiaro at gmail.com>
>
>> Oliver,
>>
>> If the application in question is relatively small, you may find
>> success in downloading a live cd that allows the installation of wine.
>>  I've done this with Ubuntu and Party Poker for a friend and with a
>> little bit of work he was playing his game on a live cd.  This was
>> enough to prove to him that wine could work for him, but more
>> importantly that the distro he's running works well with wine.  Fedora
>> is a good live cd to try as well.
>
>
> ok, I've burned kubuntu cd live, and I've booted with that cd, I've
> installed wine and my fml client, but it has the same error, it can't
> connect with the fml server for updating it.
>
>
>>
>>
>> Debian is fairly popular (ubuntu is based off of it), so we should see
>> more people complaining if the latest unstable is incompatible with
>> wine.  What version are you running?  Version 5.0 stable of debian was
>> recently released so if the network issue is related to your unstable
>> build, you may find more success with the latest stable release.
>
>
> I use Debian unstable, Debian Sid.
>
>
>>
>> If the issue is wine-network related, you should notice the windows
>> version of Firefox has connectivity issues also.  I assume you don't
>> have any special proxy settings you are using, right?
>
>
> no, I don't have proxy settings, I use direct connection.
>
>
>>
>>
>> Lastly, see if there are any errors when its trying to make its socket
>> connections when run from terminal?  You might just have a symlink or
>> dll out of place that the application is looking for.
>
>
> when I run the fml client already installed, it doesn't show any error in
> terminal (I run it from terminal).
> Can I send you the fml client and you try it? Install it is ok, the problem
> is when you want run the client. It's little, I will send you for mail, to
> Finocchiaro and Ben Klein. Thanks beforehand.
>
> P.D.: I'm going to try using ethernet and not wifi interface ... If it
> works, I will say it.
>
> Cheers...
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