niggling faults

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

John Dangler spake thusly :
> On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 05:48 -0500, Gavin Katts wrote:
>> Good day everybody
>>
>> I am a linux newbie. I have been using ubuntu feisty fawn since it was
>> released. I have several niggling little faults that I need iron out.
>>
>> I have installed ubuntu on my laptop as a dual boot system with THAT
>> OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM. There is only one app that I have to use in
>> windows that prevents me from making a complete switch. Unfortunately
>> it
>> is not available for Linux. I can run it through wine, but in demo
>> mode
>> only. It is a cad package called Genes1s. The problem comes when I
>> have
>> to install the USB dongle. It involves over-writing two dll`s. This
>> does
>> not seem to want to work, or I am not doing it correctly. I need help
>> copying files the two files into the Genes1s directory. I have tried
>> it
>> with the wine program manager but it does not work or I am doing
>> something wrong.
>>
>> Please help
>> Gavin
> I also have one of those programs, and it uses a dongle.  Wine was
> useless for this app.  I was able to get the program up in
> vmware-server, but the dongle would not cooperate.  There was another
> thread here not too long ago that spoke of a similar issue, in which a
> response was made to plug the usb dongle in prior to powering on the
> virtual machine (although I have not tried this yet, I intend to give it

I've heard this works quite nicely with VirtualBox (the proprietary
freeware version only).

http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

http://virtualbox.org/download/1.5.2/virtualbox_1.5.2-25433_Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb

or

http://virtualbox.org/download/1.5.2/virtualbox_1.5.2-25433_Ubuntu_gutsy_amd64.deb

I'm currently using the open source edition (that's about to change)
which doesn't support USB at all.

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