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

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

Thomas Nichols schrieb:
> 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?

Try to set the windows version, add the following registry keys
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-4\Software\Wine\VDM\Ports]
"read"="0x278-0x27f,0x378-0x37f"
"write"="0x278-0x27f,0x378-0x37f"

and run wine as root. That's how I made an eprom burner that has to do
direct parallel port access work.

Philipp