[Wine] Re: Connecting a gps to download data

[vitamin]

Agustin Lobo wrote:
> I've installed through wine the program for a gps data logger QSTARZ.
> The program works fine with wine, but cannot dowmnload the data from the 
> gps because I only have a windows driver for it.
> Any way to get the windows driver installed in linux so that I could 
> download the data?


Wine doesn't support any hardware drivers: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8021e00ae87d4fbfb607739af82bdb621b9d9366

The only chance you can get your GPS to work on Wine is if it's a standard serial device (or USB->serial). In that case you system should find and install driver automatically or you'll need to help it.

And AppDB seems to have someone running it: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10016

So the only thing you'll need to do is to run this command:

Code:
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com3