CrossOver Support - Community Forums

Important Information These are community forums and not official technical support. If you need official support: Contact Us

CrossOver Mac
Discussion about CrossOver Mac

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Back to Threads Reply to Thread

Can't connect to a device with thru an USB port

Hello there !!
Great APP !!, the reason I downloaded the trial version is to see if it will work with the specific software I use, i am in the home theater business and I need to program Universal Remote controls. So far I was able to install one of the programs I use all the time, but I cant connect to the remote using an USB wire. I had the same problem before using Paralles and that was the reason way I am looking for a new solution. Can I use the usb ports on my mac with Crossover ? if so, how do i set this up? Very important to make it work before trial mode expires so I pay for the full version.

Thanks

Windows device drivers are not supported by CrossOver unfortunately. This is by design, since we don't have a Windows kernel running(otherwise our software would be a virtual machine like Parallels or VMware)

This means that you'll need a MacOS driver to talk to your USB devices, and CrossOver will talk to them via the normal MacOS way of talking to devices. E.g. USB disks are mounted in a directory, and CrossOver just reads and writes normal files there. A USB network adapter is configured by OSX and CrossOver uses the normal network API. A USB sound card is driven by an OSX driver, and CrossOver uses the CoreAudio API.

In your case I think the main reason why you use CrossOver is because there is no OSX driver. Many devices like yours however are serial-to-usb adapters and OSX can talk to them via a standardized driver. On the OSX side you get a tty device. On Linux this device would be called /dev/ttyUSBx (with x being a number like 0, 1, ...), I don't know what it is called on OSX. You can forward this device to a standard serial COM port like COM0:, COM1: etc in CrossOver. I am afraid however that this will not make your app happy, because it searches the device list for an USB device, nor a COM port.

We are working on creating registry entries for attached devices, so Windows apps can properly find specific USB devices(e.g. an iPod is a USB mass storage, but iTunes won't connect to any random drive). This would also auto-configure USB-to-serial devices. You'd still need an OSX driver to talk to your device, but once that driver is loaded Windows apps will find it. However, this work is rather low priority(we get very few requests for USB support like that compared to e.g. Internet Explorer 8 support), so it will take a while before this appears(I think the timeframe is years rather than months. Currently all this is in conceptual planning stage).

The information in our Support Library article may help:

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/faq/serialoverusb

But as the article says, this is totally unsupported at this time.

Un scanner Epson USB ça marche, c'est reconnu sous Crossover ? 😒

Please Note: This Forum is for non-application specific questions relating to installation/configuration of CrossOver. All application-specific posts to this Forum will be moved to their appropriate Compatibility Center Forum.

CrossOver Forums: the place to discuss running Windows applications on Mac and Linux

CodeWeavers or its third-party tools process personal data (e.g. browsing data or IP addresses) and use cookies or other identifiers, which are necessary for its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in our Privacy Policy. You accept the use of cookies or other identifiers by clicking the Acknowledge button.
Please Wait...
eyJjb3VudHJ5IjoiVVMiLCJsYW5nIjoiZW4iLCJjYXJ0IjowLCJ0enMiOi01LCJjZG4iOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbWVkaWEuY29kZXdlYXZlcnMuY29tXC9wdWJcL2Nyb3Nzb3Zlclwvd2Vic2l0ZSIsImNkbnRzIjoxNzI1OTE2ODI4LCJjc3JmX3Rva2VuIjoic2dMTEdxMmRZUFNVRWRIRiIsImdkcHIiOjB9