Installing EFILIVE on Ubuntu

[swingtan]

Yes, "WINE" is your answer. I had EFILive running under OpenSUSE a few years back using WINE. It all worked, apart from the USB connection. I guess it may be possible to save the files directly to the SD-Card and then just use the BBF function to flash into the vehicle.

Simon.

[someguy]

I'm running EFILive in Fedora 16 with Wine. It seems to work great.

Has anyone attempted to get the scan tool working under Wine ? What is the show stopper ?

I hate to think that I have to have a dual boot laptop just for EFILive.

The world is increasingly becoming a Linux/Mac/Android place. If someone gives me some tech support, I'll write a USB driver...

[Chevy366]

I'm running EFILive in Fedora 16 with Wine. It seems to work great.

Has anyone attempted to get the scan tool working under Wine ? What is the show stopper ?

I hate to think that I have to have a dual boot laptop just for EFILive.

The world is increasingly becoming a Linux/Mac/Android place. If someone gives me some tech support, I'll write a USB driver...

Played with it for a little while but got distracted and never went back to it .
Yes EFILive in Wine works but EFILive can't see the V2 hardware due to USB not working , I did some research and the FTDI driver (USB to serial) for the V2 is present and Linux loads drivers for the unit just EFILive in wine can't see it .
Good luck , let us know if you get it working .

[GMPX]

The world is increasingly becoming a Linux/Mac/Android place.

Mmm, I'm still not sold on that idea, there is some things that are too 'geeky' to get wide spread acceptance as an alternative to Windows. An OS in this day and age should not require the user to use command lines UNLESS they want to.

The world is increasingly becoming a Linux/Mac/Android place.

Yes, I am amazed how much people will pay for over priced PC hardware. Shame on Apple for switching to Intel just to keep up with the clock speed marketing. Looks at the current gaming consoles, all run PowerPC, not Intel. But 1GHz CPU's don't sell boxes even though they probably outdo the Intel CPU's in MIPS.

The world is increasingly becoming a Linux/Mac/Android place.

Too open to be stable. I've never owned anything Android, just what people tell me.

[Chevy366]

Mmm, I'm still not sold on that idea, there is some things that are too 'geeky' to get wide spread acceptance as an alternative to Windows. An OS in this day and age should not require the user to use command lines UNLESS they want to.


Yes, I am amazed how much people will pay for over priced PC hardware. Shame on Apple for switching to Intel just to keep up with the clock speed marketing. Looks at the current gaming consoles, all run PowerPC, not Intel. But 1GHz CPU's don't sell boxes even though they probably outdo the Intel CPU's in MIPS.


Too open to be stable. I've never owned anything Android, just what people tell me.

Put it this way , number 2 tablet purchased , Android . Number one (some argue number 2) cell phone , Android . U.S. Department of defense new issued to all soldiers cell phones , Android . Although Android is app only and not program software capable it is none the less popular .

Win8 on tablets is coming but is it enough ? To late ? Niche audience ?
And WIn7.5 cell phones are now coming to market in a nicer package (Nokia N9) , to late ? Niche audience ?

I see your point of not wanting to write EFILive for Linux when there are just a few of us here capable of understanding Linux . Niche audience .

Those of us who use Linux know that the stability is not a factor in Linux , but if you said "to diverse" , meaning a lot of different versions then I would agree (but if one did the 3 big ones Ubuntu , Fedora , openSuse) .

Of course we could do a Erik and bombard you with e-mails pestering you into submission .

[ScarabEpic22]

Of course we could do a Erik and bombard you with e-mails pestering you into submission .

[someguy]

Linux is a great working OS. Its fast, solid, lots of free tools, versatile, etc.

There is no need to do anything from the command line these days. But if you want to, its a great, efficient way to do things.

Its amazing how much it improves with each release. KDE 4.7 rocks as a windows environment. When I go back to Win 7, I feel like I'm in the stone age. Its so slow and clunky.

Have you ever developed in the Eclipse IDE ?

[GMPX]

Of course we could do a Erik and bombard you with e-mails pestering you into submission .

Well, I'll be frank, I just don't care that much about the whole computer OS debate to think about it more than a few minutes. It seems everyone's problem with Windows is security holes, so I run Eset Smart Security, job done, issue gone. I just couldn't be bothered to learn the ins and outs of any of the Lunix versions out there to consider ditching Windows.