[Linux-disciples] wine

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Karl Sokol wrote:
> I am trying to get my sister-in-law's digital voice recorder to work
> on her Ubuntu system.  Unfortunately, we have not made any headway and
> prospects look bleak as shown here...
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1557604
> She has the Windows disk.  Can you install and mount drivers in wine
> for devices that don't otherwise work in linux?

ndiswrapper is a generalized solution for running Windows drivers under
linux. It was developed for network cards, but it also works with several
other categories of devices. I have no idea if it would solve your problem,
but you might at least poke around with that.

> Also, my denomination (United Methodist) submits all of their stuff as
> .nfo to be read with NEXTPAGE FOLIO.  You generally need to have the
> disk in the drive to access the info.  FOLIO generally works well
> within Wine, but I cannot read anything that requires that the disk be
> put in.  Is there a way of ripping the disk so that it can read the
> appropriate files?  Or better yet, is there a Linux program for
> reading such files?

Not sure whether there is a linux reader -- it would be odd for a common
document interchange format to exist without a linux client, but then again,
I've never heard of NEXTPAGE FOLIO. Is your problem just that you can't
access your floppy drive from Wine? That should be fixable. You can also
make floppy disk images easily with something like dd if=/dev/fd0
of=some_file.img. You can mount some_file.img as a loopback device in linux,
and I believe there is a way in wine to tell it that some_file.img should
appear as a drive for windows applications. I've done it before for CD-ROMs,
but it shouldn't be any different for floppies.