> i’m new with linux,
-=WELCOME=- new poster!!
> recently we had a visit from BSA to our company
only BSA i know is Boy Scouts of America…
> and they forced us
the Boy Scouts seldom force anyone to do anything…did these Scouts
have guns?
> to move OS’s on linux.I have installed opensuse 11
there actually is no such thing as opensuse 11, there are openSUSE 11.0,
11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4, but of those only the last two are currently
supported…did you install one of those?
and, there is a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) version 11, is it
that which you installed? if so, you have x days of free support with
the makers of that software, and i would expect them to be much more
capable of answering your business type questions (these are the
openSUSE forum which is mostly personal desktop users helping the
same–not to say we don’t also have professional and business users, we
sure do)
if your is 11.3 or 11.4 say so, and if it is SLED i’ll say you are
welcome to hang out here and see if you get the help you need, but BE
ADVISED that here many of the answers might be from folks who have never
run SLED (like me, or maybe never even heard of it before) and
you are likely much better off if you seek assistance from the
Attachmate/SUSE forums (where the SUSE Linux Enterprise gurus hang out),
at: http://tinyurl.com/422mrnu
> on
> DELL Vostro 1000 laptop’s. We are using them to upload a .csv file into
> a cash register.The file contains products, prices, and other
> parameters. If i install Wine and run the normal windows app, it doesn’t
> recognize my com ports. We connect to these devices by an usb to serial
> rs232 adapter (PL 2303)
hmmm…does that laptop have a serial port? because i think it most
likely you will have success sooner if you avoid the USB and just hook
up a serial cable and use the program ‘minicom’ (available and
installable by YaST from the standard repo)
> or by direct usb cable for some models (FTDI driver).
i have no idea what an FTDI driver is, but if you just hook up USB port
to USB port do you get a pop up saying a new device has become
available, and offer to (something like) “Open it in a file
manager”…if that happens it should be possible to set up a dual pane
file manager and navigate to where the file is on your Linux machine in
one pane, and to where it is stored on the cash register in the other
pane, and then just drag and drop to copy newer over older…
> What i need to know is how can i upload/download that .csv file to
> the cash register. Is there a posibility to send it directly without
> using that windows app?
without knowing anything about the cash register, or how it presents
itself either to the serial port or the USB i can only guess it is
possible…(and i told you in which ways above)…however i think it
would wise to dig out the tech data on the cash registers and see if
they made provisions for any back and forth without a windows machine
around…
> Need help, and i’m not even sure i’m posting in the right place.
you posted to a good enough place…i wish i had fast answer which were
as good as your place pick…
> On windows app we connect through com1 4800 baud.
that information would be very useful for the case where it is possible
to connect from the laptops serial port to the cash registers serial
port (i would expect minicom to want to know those parameters–but, i’ve
not used that critter in this century)
hmmmmm…i have no idea if minicom or any other such ‘terminal program’
knows how to connect via USB
OH! you didn’t mention what kind of error message (if any) you are
getting out of WINE, and maybe your smile will grow greatly if you were
to nose around the forums (and/or) contact the nice folks at WINE Hqs
<http://www.winehq.org/> where the answer you need might be waiting on
you to find it (in a posting about as old as those laptops and cash
registers)
finally, can’t you get those Scouts with guns to also force you
management to no longer purchase equipment which sports “Windows Ready”
logo which actually often means “Windows REQUIRED” (despite the cost or
insecurity)
if you have more questions or run into roadblocks (i’m sure you will)
please provide error messages and other useful hints…
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