USB Osciloscope

[Archie Robertson]

I have a USB osciloscope (Link Instruments DSO 8002) that I am quite
motivated to get working in wine.  I have followed the instructions to
install the USB patches.  The osciloscope software works fine in demo
mode, but it still cannot find the device.  I have spent some time
messing around with this, but I am new to wine, so I am a little lost.
I am a half decent c programmer, so If somebody could point me in the
right direction I should be able to get this working.

I have gotten error message usbd.sys failed to load.

I don't know if this program requires functions that wine does not
support or I have just failed to install something correctly.

I have attached lsusb and winedump -x output

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Shachar Shemesh]

> I have a USB osciloscope (Link Instruments DSO 8002) that I am quite
> motivated to get working in wine.  I have followed the instructions to
> install the USB patches.  The osciloscope software works fine in demo
> mode, but it still cannot find the device.  I have spent some time
> messing around with this, but I am new to wine, so I am a little lost.
> I am a half decent c programmer, so If somebody could point me in the
> right direction I should be able to get this working.
>
> I have gotten error message usbd.sys failed to load.
>
> I don't know if this program requires functions that wine does not
> support or I have just failed to install something correctly.
>
> I have attached lsusb and winedump -x output
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

usbd.sys sounds like a kernel driver. I'm not sure those are supported, 
even for USB.

I had a logic analyzer that I managed to get working (sort of - the GUI 
did not work well with Wine). It used the FTDI drivers, so I found Linux 
version of the same drivers, and created a winelib wrapper for them 
under the same name as the Windows version.

Your driver seems to be for a driver called "ezusb". Try finding linux 
drivers for them ("ezusb linux drivers" returned 
http://www.linux-usb.org/ezusb/, for example. There is also 
http://www.cypress.com/?id=4&rID=29746).

Hope this helps,
Shachar

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Shachar" == Shachar Shemesh  writes:

>>  I have a USB osciloscope (Link Instruments DSO 8002) that I am quite
    >> motivated to get working in wine.  I have followed the instructions
    >> to install the USB patches.  The osciloscope software works fine in
    >> demo mode, but it still cannot find the device.  I have spent some
    >> time messing around with this, but I am new to wine, so I am a little
    >> lost.  I am a half decent c programmer, so If somebody could point me
    >> in the right direction I should be able to get this working.
    >> 
    >> I have gotten error message usbd.sys failed to load.
    >> 
    >> I don't know if this program requires functions that wine does not
    >> support or I have just failed to install something correctly.
    >> 
    >> I have attached lsusb and winedump -x output
    >> 
    >> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    >>

Shachar> usbd.sys sounds like a kernel driver. I'm not sure those are
    Shachar> supported, even for USB.

USB driver are not supported per se, but Alexander Morozov tried to build
infrastructure for such driver loading. He provided patches and asked for
discussion, but few to non feedback happened on this list. Also 
Damjan Jovanovic  Jan 23   91/4337  "USB architecture: driver loading question"
tried to take up the subject, again with no feedback.

Linux users in the elektronic area would love to see Wine supporting USB
drivers...

Archie
    >> I have gotten error message usbd.sys failed to load.
Try to get more information about that error. Is some kernel driver api
missing? At some point I had at least usbd.sys loading, also the final
device driver failed.

Another approach:
Can you look at the ezusb-imports of your application
and compare against what 
linux-2.6.34.7-0.7/drivers/usb/serial/ezusb.xxx
sipplies? Perhaps you can write a replacemment ezusb DLL.

Bye

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Uwe Bonnes
 wrote:
> > > > > > "Shachar" == Shachar Shemesh  writes:
> Also
> Damjan Jovanovic  Jan 23   91/4337  "USB architecture: driver loading question"
> tried to take up the subject, again with no feedback.

For the record, I haven't had much feedback on that "driver loading
question" either, so I've had little to go on. But since I see many
people are interested, I am increasing the priority of that project.
> Linux users in the elektronic area would love to see Wine supporting USB
> drivers...

I've been waiting since 2004...
> Archie

Damjan Jovanovic

[Martin Owens]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 17:09 -0700, Archie Robertson wrote:
> so If somebody could point me in the
> right direction I should be able to get this working.

[James McKenzie]

On 3/1/11 5:09 PM, Archie Robertson wrote:
> I have a USB osciloscope (Link Instruments DSO 8002) that I am quite
> motivated to get working in wine.  I have followed the instructions to
> install the USB patches.  The osciloscope software works fine in demo
> mode, but it still cannot find the device.  I have spent some time
> messing around with this, but I am new to wine, so I am a little lost.
> I am a half decent c programmer, so If somebody could point me in the
> right direction I should be able to get this working.

There is a page on USB support on the Wine Wiki.  Please feel free to 
read through it. Note that the last time I tried to get to the page with 
the USB patches, it was not available.  Others here have expressed their 
willingness to improve USB non-storage device support.  This has been a 
tough problem to solve.

James McKenzie