Making USB work in wine 4.0 (ubuntu 19.04)

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I succeeded in installing an windows app in ubuntu 19.04 (needed winetricks to install dotnet45). The app is configuration software for an electronic device with USB port (BZS config).

The app starts but it says "no device connected". USB is connected and lsusb shows that device is recognized by the Linux kernel

Bus 001 Device 124: ID 1fc9:81d5 NXP Semiconductors

There are plenty of symlinks in dosdevices, e.g.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 <user> <user> 12 Sep  1 17:10 com33 -> /dev/ttyUSB0

dmesg says:

[420485.204701] cdc_acm 1-2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[420492.561108] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 112
[420497.008650] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 113 using xhci_hcd
[420497.166011] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1fc9, idProduct=81d5, bcdDevice= 1.00
[420497.166015] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[420497.166018] usb 1-2: Product: VCOM Port
[420497.166021] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: NZR
[420497.166023] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: NZR-77

What are the next steps to try to make it work.

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The pertinent part in the Wine documentation is likely Serial and Parallel Ports, which describes how to make Wine aware of USB serial devices:

Make sure you have the needed rights to access your computer's serial and parallel ports. On Linux, a user must typically be a member of the sys or dialout group to access serial ports, or the lp group to access parallel ports.

To override Wine's default device mapping, run wine regedit and create string entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wine\Ports where the entry name is the Windows device name and the entry value is the path to the Unix device. Continuing with the above example, to make COM1 the first USB-attached serial port, create an entry with the name COM1 and the value /dev/ttyUSB0.

After editing the registry, shut down Wine with wineserver -k and the next time Wine runs a program, your changes will take effect.

However, if the USB device requires under Windows the installation of a device driver, then you are just out of luck.

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Okay, it turns out that in this case something (possibly when I wrote the iso-9660 file system to the drive) has triggered some form of internal write protection on the drive. There are no external write protection / hold switches, but yet this is the output in dmesg when I run

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb

as root:

sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Write protected
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 4028744
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Data Protect [current] 
Info fld=0x0

Note the comments in there about protection! However, when I plug the device in, I get,

scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     FLASH    Drive  AU_USB20  8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 4069376 512-byte hardware sectors (2084 MB)
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 4069376 512-byte hardware sectors (2084 MB)
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

Note that this message says that the device is not write protected! So unfortunately, it looks like the disk has had it (i.e kaput).

What’s up with this 64GB USB thumb drive appearing as two disks

Here is the explanation directly from Centon:

Question: I recently purchased one of your 64GB DataStick flash drives, and I was surprised to find that the 64GB device was formatted with two partitions. Why is this? Can it be re-configured?

Answer: Due to a limitation in Windows 2000/XP/2003 computers, drive volumes cannot be formatted in capacities larger than 32GB using the FAT32 file system. As a result, to ensure the drive can be recognized by the most number of computer systems, our 64GB drive is partitioned into two 32GB volumes. The Windows formatted capacity is roughly around 30GB.

When the 64GB drive is connected to your Windows computer, it will be assigned two drive letters.

The drive cannot be reconfigured into a single 64GB partion. The partition on these drives is hardcoded into the USB-to-flash controller chip.

So no, your drive is not faulty. They decided that the best thing for you, the consumer, is to actually use two seperate drives. I would be mad if I ordered a USB drive and realized that the manufacturer created this restriction without any mention on the product description page.

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