usb

[deedee]

>Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:55:49 +0000
>From: david <david at 123four.fsnet.co.uk>
>
>does anyone know how to get a usb device working in wine.  I'm running a
>dual boot win98/mandrake9.1 and am using the win98 partition for wine.

As someone else indicated, you have to get your usb devices working under Linux. Once you do, I've found that wine will find them.

Do you have cdrecord installed? With mandrake9.1 at the command line, I typed in

cdrecord -scanbus

and it gave me the location of all scsi, including usb, devices. I read somewhere that the protocols are similar which is why they appear to show up as scsi devices (???).

You can look under /dev/scsi and find the files that actually run the devices. I have an external usb floppy disk drive as well as external usb modem. The cdrom is really a combined CD-RW/DVD player, and AFAIK, the only actually scsi device.

For the floppy disk drive, I created the directory /dev/floppy and symlinked from the actual device under /dev/scsi. Ditto the cdrom and modem.

Make certain there are mount points for each storage device (i.e., /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/zip), and put in the appropriate lines in /etc/fstab.

In my case, when I ran winesetuptk, it identified the floppy disk drive and cdrom exactly.

There doesn't seem to be any way to get it to see the Zip drive in the config. Perhaps someone on the list can say why that is or what the drive should look like in the config, if it does recognize Zip drives (it's PNP in the parallel port, but again shows up as a scsi device).

I am also using a win98se/mandrake9.1 setup.

deedee

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