I have found some talk of implementing USB device support in wine in
this
list some time ago (2005), but as far as I know, nothing ever came of
it.
I would perhaps be interested in getting this going again, as I have an application (Serato Scratch Live: http://www.rane.com/scratch.html) for which the software appears to run ok under wine (not that I am able to test much of its functionality on the other hand), but is utterly useless without support
for
its associated USB hardware device.
One thing is that you need to make sure that the hardware is detected and usable by Linux prior to trying to implement support for it in wine. If linux can't see it, then wine won't be able to, just like if you dont have the drivers installed in windows, then you wont be able to use it within the application on windows.
Ok, thanks Tom.
I will investigate that - "/var/log/syslog" and "/proc/bus/usb/devices" should give me some idea if the USB device is detected, right?
I'll check when I get home, at work atm.
Cheers, Jono