Re: [Elecraft] New Linux user - USB questions

2014-08-15 Thread Slava Baytalskiy
Using Wine is not really Linux. Wine is the Windows emulator for Linux and like all emulators (mostly) it has issues with hardware. Because its an abstraction layer between the OS and the target device. Why don't you just use Linux natively? There are programs that run on Linux, although not as

Re: [Elecraft] New Linux user - USB questions

2014-08-13 Thread Joel Black
Bill, Look up creating sym links for Linux. That's short for symbolic links and is basically a shortcut for a Linux (or OS X) machine. I run OS X and the directory structure is a tad different so I'm not quite sure how to do it on Linux. 73, Joel - W4JBB On 8/12/14, 8:47 PM, NZ0T wrote: I

[Elecraft] New Linux user - USB questions

2014-08-12 Thread NZ0T
I am trying to learn about Linux using the Zorin OS 9 version of Ubuntu. My goal is to replace Win7 on my old desktop I use in the shack but I need to make sure that everything works. I have Zorin working great on my Acer netbook which is my test bed for Linux. I have managed to get an older