On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:52, Nick Law wrote: > Hi > > Does anybody know whether wine works with USB ports or not ? > > The reason I ask is that I'm trying to get the application TDK CD/DVD > Printer Labeller Software running, the software appears to work except > for the fact it complains that "The printer is turned off or not > connected to the computer". > > http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=3751 > > Is there some other layer of software that needs to be installed for USB > to work ? > > I'm running Suse 9.3 and even without wine KDE doesn't appear to > ackowledge that I've plugged a USB device in. I guess I'm expecting a > little icon to pop up in the right hand corner telling me I've got new > hardware, however maybe it doesn't do that ? > > If I use YAST to check out the hardware info, it does see the USB ports > and it even recognises a casio unclassified device plugged in, so I > guess it's possibly a wine problem, are there any checks that I can > perform in wine regarding USB ? > > Nick > hi Nick wine can use USB printers, but it's not done the way you tried. What you need to do is configure cups (the default linux printer daemon, SuSE probably has a printer setup tool in some system control panel thing) so it knows your printer. As soon as linux knows your printer, wine should aswell _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
