[Wine] Need windows driver when using wine?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 19 16:39:26 CDT 2009


spaceman wrote:
> I need to use a PCMCIA card with serial port on my linux laptop together with a Windows program.
>
> Can anyone tell me if I need to install the windows driver that came with the PCMCIA card; if so, the driver for which Windows version?.  
>
> Or should the Windows program running on wine be able to access the serial port on the PCMCIA card if the card is installed correctly under my OpenSuse 11.1?
>
> Cheers
>
> Spaceman
>  [Question]
>   
You need to install the card in Linux and then extend the com port so
that Wine can use it.

James McKenzie




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