[Wine] Re: will wine support windows USB drivers?

[storkus]

[quote="vitamin"][quote="sparkythewondersquid"]will wine support windows USB drivers?[/quote]
Yes. When? No idea.[/quote]

It's not really a matter of when WINE will support USB as whether your device is supported by the Linux (or *BSD or...) kernel since WINE is just an application wrapper.

I can tell you from experience that many (maybe even most) of these devices are supported by existing Linux drivers: some by dedicated drivers, but most by the open CDC-ACM driver (and standard).

The best idea is to check around various forums and lists (plug in "<your modem name> linux" into Google or whatever seems fastest) and, failing that, try and see if the above driver recognizes it.

The one other thing I suggest (which is too late for you) is along the lines of "forewarned is forearmed": research your purchase FIRST before you sink the money into it, ESPECIALLY if you can't return it!

Mike