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Would it enable internet on Windows itself if I use Windows Internet through Wine?
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Post by DaVince »

Wine and Windows are completely seperate, and Wine relies on Linux to make the connection. So no.
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so............

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So, could I still use the internet through wine, for windows, without any trouble at all?
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM, maxmc087 <[email protected]> wrote:
So, could I still use the internet through wine, for windows, without any trouble at all?
Your questions do not make complete sense.

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What I mean is

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Ok, Let me rephrase this, My original question was 'will it enable internet on windows itself through wine'. Since my answer was 'no' I'm wondering if 1) it'll be safe to use internet on windows through wine without any trouble, and 2) will wine even connect to the internet if I go on Halo Custom edition
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Re: What I mean is

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maxmc087 wrote:I'm wondering if 1) it'll be safe to use internet on windows through wine without any trouble,
This does not make sense. Wine does not run on Windows.

Now, if you're asking whether Windows apps running in Wine can connect to the internet, the answer is yes.
2) will wine even connect to the internet if I go on Halo Custom edition
Why don't you just try it and find out?
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maxmc087 wrote:
Ok, Let me rephrase this, My original question was 'will it enable internet on windows itself through wine'. Since my answer was 'no' I'm wondering if 1) it'll be safe to use internet on windows through wine without any trouble,
Wine is NOT Windows. Thus this question should be asked:

Can you connect to the Internet through Wine? Yes and no. If you are
on Linux, functions like ping (echo response) may/may not work. You can
use gecko for some, but not all, HTML functionality. You can install
Firefox 3.5.5 for web browsing. If you need IE8, you are out of luck.
and 2) will wine even connect to the internet if I go on Halo Custom edition

Don't know. However, we do provide an Applications Database where you
can look for this. If it is not there, that means:

a. No one has tried,
b. Folks have tried but not entered any results.

You should not rely on the results of what others have found. If there
are no results posted, why not try and let us know what happened.

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Post by DaVince »

I answered 'no' because I assumed you were saying this:

"If I am able to make an internet connection in Wine, will I suddenly be able to make a connection in real Windows too?"

Since Wine's a program that's completely seperate from an OS like Windows in terms of access, it won't make any soft of difference.

If you meant something else, please, PLEASE rephrase. Most apps can connect to the internet fine under Wine if you meant that, though it depends on the completeness and compatibility of the networking libraries with Wine that seperate apps use.
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Post by doh123 »

It sounds like the OP thinks Wine is something like VMware... that it runs Windows. It does not run Windows at all, it just runs software made for Windows without needing Windows at all.
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