From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 19:38:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664711065674 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:38:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252368FC0A for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1GJcZgY021192; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:38:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p1GJcZAR021189; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:38:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:38:35 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Fred In-Reply-To: <4D5C1D2C.2020800@blakemfg.com> Message-ID: References: <4D41BDF6.5080904@blakemfg.com> <4D421B95.1070909@blakemfg.com> <4D5C1D2C.2020800@blakemfg.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:38:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:38:38 -0000 On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Fred wrote: ... >> There's a downloadable version of the software on the site. If that works >> acceptably, the final hurdle would be whether it can communicate with the >> programmer by USB. The site says it's USB 2.0 and installs drivers on >> Windows, which doesn't bode well for the Wine/FreeBSD setup. It may work, >> although you have to expect that any support call will blame problems on >> the non-standard setup. ... > I downloaded the programmer software and wine installed it without any > problems (350 MB!). The software seems to run ok so far under wine. So the > remaining issue is the USB connection. I found the USB port in /dev but to > make the link I also need to know what Windows calls the USB port so the > programmer software can find it. If one plugs a non-storage USB device into > Windows without installing any specific driver, what does Windows call the > USB port? If the device shows up as a USB serial port (/dev/cuaU0) , it can be linked to a Wine com port, as shown here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AVR/ArduinoWINE Don't know about other types of devices.