Flashing i910 in Ubuntu or other linux distro?

[Guest Abqcub]

Has anyone tried flashing their phone on Linux. I was going through another post about using a virtual machine to flash, but that was for people with vista. That got me thinking if I could use a XP virtual machine to flash my phone. Then I thought maybe I could do this all natively through wine.

I should mention a few things. I'm using an i910 and the program I was going to use is the UMDL 2.3 which i don't think is the same tool used for the i900. I'm also running Ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala, and using WINE 1.1.38 dev version.

Anyway I opened the UMDL through WINE with no problems (pic posted below) but I'm wondering if it would be wise to go through with a flash, well when I'm ready to flash my phone again anyway. It all seems plausible so I guess my question is; will this work? Has anyone tried doing this? Also if using WINE didn't work, would an xp virtual machine work.

I should also mention I kinda messed up my xp partition (oops) so thats why i'm looking for an alternative. The only reason i had xp still on my computer was for flashing.

Edited February 15, 2010 by Abqcub

[Guest Abqcub]

So i decided to take the plunge and just try it, and it didn't work. The UMDL didn't detect my phone, and I think it has something to do with the way WINE handles stuff plugged into the USB. Just thought I'd share.

[Guest xenspidey]

So i decided to take the plunge and just try it, and it didn't work. The UMDL didn't detect my phone, and I think it has something to do with the way WINE handles stuff plugged into the USB. Just thought I'd share.

Yeah i tried this as well several months ago. I'm not sure why it can't detect the USB port. I'm sure WINE uses some kind of virtual layer to talk to the hardware. If you discover a way to do this let me know i'd be interested.

[Guest Abqcub]

Yeah i tried this as well several months ago. I'm not sure why it can't detect the USB port. I'm sure WINE uses some kind of virtual layer to talk to the hardware. If you discover a way to do this let me know i'd be interested.

Well i think it has to with the way it handles drivers. While I was trying to install iTunes through wine there was some discussion about changing the driver settings in wine so it could read usb devices. I may look into it further