Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Fred wrote:
I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to a
PC through USB. Unfortunately, the user software that make it go
only runs on Bill Gates' cancerous, virus-infested, scourge of the
Earth excuse for an OS which I do not use. Is it likely to work ok
using wine? What type of programs do not work well with wine? There
is a supported, commercial version of wine that runs on Linux. Would
I be better off buying that and running it on the FBSD Linux emulation?
If you were to be more specific about the device you're considering,
someone may be able to suggest specifics.
Sometimes Wine is surprising. This was the case when I managed to run
the Arduino software on Wine under FreeBSD. That software speaks to
the microcontroller via serial or USB-to-serial:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AVR/ArduinoWINE
If your device speaks serial like that, it might work well. If it
wants to do low-level hardware or anything uncommon, it probably will
not work in Wine.
If you have to get the device anyway, there's little harm in trying it
on Wine. If it doesn't work, you've lost nothing but time, and
probably not much of that.
I am interested in the Xeltek SuperPro-5000. This unit will alsowork
stand-alone with a CF card programmed by the PC in addition to usb. I
believe the user software downloads a set of programming parameters and
the file to be programmed rather than driving the programmer directly or
otherwise do low level hardware stuff. I am going to ask Xeltek if they
will give a refund if I can't get the unit working in a reasonable
time. If it doesn't work I would otherwise be out of $1500. I will not
use Windows.
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