[Wine]USB?

Alex Zeiger zeiger at nospam.snowbird.net
Mon Jul 26 17:19:44 CDT 2004


Ryan Underwood wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 05:00:13PM -0400, Alex Zeiger wrote:
> 
>>>Well, what's the hardware and where is the software?
>>>
>>
>>Sorry. It's www.usb-instruments.com (specifically 
>>www.usb-instruments.com/hardware-ds2200.html).
>>
>>I once emailed them about a Linux port. They said they were open to the 
>>possibility, but no immediate plans were in the works. They do make a 
>>point of publishing the software interfaces for their products. A DLL 
>>for the scope's interface is available 
>>(http://www.usb-instruments.com/interfacing.html). The user-end software 
>>is also freely available for download from their site. Would that be 
>>adequate for Wine?
> 
> 
> You could build a winelib application around the DLL, or try to run the
> Windows application under Wine.  I'm not sure how Wine works with
> respect to enumerating USB devices and making them available to user
> code though.  Also, you'd probably need a loadable device driver anyway
> so you can do DeviceIoctl on it, if it's not a generic USB class device.

The installer and application seem to work under Wine, but of course it 
seems unable to access the oscilloscope. What's DeviceIoctl? Google 
doesn't turn up anything.




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