[Wine] Help requested for Aeris Dive Computer interface

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri May 22 21:56:15 CDT 2009


trherald wrote:
> ok, based one the previous replies, here's the information requested:
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> 1.  WINE version is 1.1.21
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That's the latest/greatest.  1.1.22 was released today.
> 2. The ACI interface DOES use a special driver to access the computer itself via a USB port and special cable, although at this point I haven't got as far as trying that.  First step is to open a dive log to start with.
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This may prove problematic.  Wine in its present form does not support
USB attached devices unless the underlying *Nix can see the device. 
Work is progressing, but it is still not ready for inclusion into the
main Wine product.
> 3.  The ACI interface seems to use a run time version of the Microsoft Access database to store the dive log information.
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This may be solved by using Winetricks to install the Jet40 engine. 
Please look at the FAQ to see how to use it.

> Looking around on the web, it looks like I'm not the first person to try running ACI under WINE and encountering problems  It doesn't look good that this is a solvable problem, at least in the near future.  Too bad really.
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Wine has come a long way and it still has a long way to go.  I'm
actually impressed with what has happened since I started using it about
a year and a half ago in an attempt to run several programs that I like
and there is no *nix version going to be produced (this includes Mac
versions as well.)

James McKenzie




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