Allowing WINE program access to PCMCIA WLAN card

[TheGeekoid]

I have a PCMCIA WLAN card (aironet 350) and im trying to use its utility to update the firmware on the card. The utility is a windows program. It runs fine under WINE 1.4, just cannot access the PCMCIA bus. How do i go about telling WINE to allow access to the PCMCIA bus?

[dimesio]

You can try running it as root, which is generally not recommended, but people have reported being able to update the firmware of various devices that way.

Don't do that unless you're comfortable with the possibility of bricking your hardware.

Also, 1.4 is almost 3 years old and no longer supported.

[TheGeekoid]

The Wine 1.4 was on the Kubuntu repositories, so it musnt be updated very often. I shall try running it as root. I dont care too much about bricking it as its an old WLAN card im trying to update just for the heck of it. Its certainally not relied on.

[dimesio]

Development releases are in the Wine PPA, though if you're using an old version of Kubuntu, there may not be newer packages for it. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ubuntu/ppa