[Wine] Newbie: any hope of running a dongle-protected app? Aladdin HASP on LPT1...

[Thomas Nichols]

Hi,

I'm a complete Wine newbie, still in the "Shock and Awe" stage... so 
apologies for obvious stupidities. I'm trying to run a VB6 app, probably 
1999-vintage, under Wine. It is protected by a parallel port dongle from 
Aladdin. The app installs, the HASP drivers (latest version) apparently 
install, but when I run the app it tells me "HASP device driver not 
loaded". I'm starting to dig through debug logs for more info, but 
before I start on this....

    - is this insane?
Is there any reasonable hope that even if I can get the app to 
communicate with the HASP device driver, I will then be able to get the 
"device driver" to communicate with the dongle on LPT1?

I believe the HASP driver is haspds_windows.dll - there are also a bunch 
of VXD files, which according to the FAQs won't work on Wine. have I 
understood correctly these VXDs wouldn't be used on a WinXP box? The app 
runs fine on XP (so long as the dongle is attached).

If this is a hopeless cause I'll just have to dual-boot, use VMWare or 
whatever.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA,
Thomas.

System: Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-r2 Wine 20050725 -- waiting for an ebuild of 
Wine 0.9 :-)