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

[Thomas Nichols]

Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:

>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
>  
>

Thanks very much, when I next get access to the box at the weekend I'll 
try it.
    - Thomas.