On 16 February 2010 22:20, ajbarnes <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My wife and I just got a Dell V313w. It's a great printer, we love it. We just can't use it. > We're a Mac family and it seems this printer requires it's Window's based software to fully enable it's capability (scanning and sending over WiFi for example). > Mac OS X will not print to it directly over any connection methods (USB, WiFi, SMB Share) due to lack of appropriate driver. > I could run Dell's proprietary software in a virtual machine but I would rather not use up that much memory just to print. And Bootcamping it would be silly. TinyXP is actually surprisingly small and, for a single program, would run fine in 128MB. > Finally we get down to the question: What are the chances of getting Dell's software running on Snow Leopard using Wine? When I attempt the install, it says the Windows Spooler Service is not running. If it's a printer *driver* you haven't a hope and should rely on CUPS (which Mac OS X and Linux use, and Apple actually develops now). But it appears you're talking about a userland program, i.e. what Wine appears to run. So there may be hope! Even if I don't know what it is. - d.
