http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9787
--- Comment #149 from D dbuck@novell.com 2008-02-25 13:56:19 --- The "controls get disabled" problem has occured for me too, but it only happens when the hosting computer of a multiplayer game doesn't have the proper ports open.
When this happens I usually just kick them from the server and I get the controls again; otherwise, it takes many, many minutes to get them back, if at all. (Usually never.)
I then procede to gently remind my friends of their network situation. :]
D