Debian Linux Success

[solusek]

Just a FYI. The software and hardware works on Debian Linux using wine. You must use it on wireless mode.

 

[Uwe]

You must use it on wireless mode.

Right, the HID USB support in Linux is... Lacking?

-Uwe-

 

[Eric]

I hadn't found this until now, but it certainly seems worth a try for USB:

How to VCDS HEX-V2 on Linux

So apparently all you need to do to get a HEX-V2 to work directly on Linux (no virtual machine or dual boot), is make a udev rule to allow wine access to the raw HID device. Install Wine using your distro's package manager. # pacman -S wine wine-mono wine-gecko winetricks Download and...

www.vwvortex.com

 

[Uwe]

I hadn't found this until now, but it certainly seems worth a try for USB:

We just tried it on Katie's desktop that runs Mint.

$ lsusb finds the HEX-V2 with the vendor and product ID shown at the above link (0483/a0cb).

We created the new udev rule as documented at the above link -- a mildly frustrating experience for Linux n00bs.

We tried refreshing udev as documented at the above link
- No joy VCDS doesn't find the HEX-V2.

We tried rebooting the computer.
- No joy VCDS doesn't find the HEX-V2.



-Uwe-

 

[Katie Ross]

Unfortunately just built this PC a couple months ago and still spend most of my day at work on a Win 11 PC- so learning has been slow!

 

[stefdds]

Katie is in the House!

 

[Eric]

Took me two hours, but I finally got it working with Ubuntu 24.04. It's definitely not as simple as under the VWVortex OS they're using. Quick notes, not sure which of all this is necessary:

To make the HID accessible to all:
sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/99-wine-hid.rules

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0483", ATTRS{idProduct}=="a0cb", MODE="0666", TAG+="uaccess"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0483", ATTRS{idProduct}=="a00f", MODE="0666", TAG+="uaccess"

(then ctrl+o, enter, ctrl+x)
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

To install latest Wine (10.20):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/noble/winehq-noble.sources
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging

To install more wine USB/HID stuff:

sudo apt install libhidapi-hidraw0 libusb-1.0-0

Then if you don't have the GUI for Wine, it should be as simple as downloading VCDS in Firefox then calling:

wine ~/Downloads/VCDS-Beta-25.12.0-Installer.exe

Use the default installer options, and then

 cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Ross-Tech/VCDS-Beta/
wine ./VCDS.exe

You can pin VCDS to the toolbar while it's running.

I'd still need to wipe and reinstall U24.04 and start from scratch to make sure this is working without additional steps, but not tonight
I also want to see if it's possible to copy an installed VCDS x64 and run it without all those i386 Wine files.

 

[Uwe]

Katie is in the House!

Although @Katie Ross took a full-time job elsewhere a couple of years ago, she's still an honorary Ross-Tech employee.

-Uwe-

 

[Katie Ross]

Although @Katie Ross took a full-time job elsewhere a couple of years ago, she's still an honorary Ross-Tech employee.

-Uwe-

Translation: I still scan cars, try new linux things, and photoshop images when my loving father asks.

 

[golfi_vend]

Now somebody test ODIS and let's make 2026 year of Linux Desktop

 

[Uwe]

Now somebody test ODIS

-Uwe-

 

[Eric]

Update: Mono (offered on Wine-staging first run) and libhidapi-hidraw0 libusb-1.0-0 are not needed.
A fresh ubuntu 24.04 install works with just the remaining steps from the previous post.

 

[grant@gendan]

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[McSpreader]

I have been trying to get an older Hex-USB+CAN dongle to play nice by modding the added udev rules using the different vendor and product ids but no success so far. Is this a forlorn hope? TBH I have a rugged laptop running Win10 IOT so it's no big deal but its always good to be different.
Currently running x64 VCDS 25.3 via WINE 11.0 on Mint 22.3.

 

[mrgranda]

Solo para que lo sepas. El software y el hardware funcionan en Debian Linux con Wine. Debes utilizarlo en modo inalámbrico.


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gracias. Habrá que probarlo a ver como marcha.

 

[PetrolDave]

gracias. Habrá que probarlo a ver como marcha.

@mrgranda Please note that this is an English language forum.

 

[Uwe]

I have been trying to get an older Hex-USB+CAN dongle to play nice by modding the added udev rules using the different vendor and product ids but no success so far. Is this a forlorn hope?

I think you would need native Linux drivers for it. It looks like FTDI has D2XX drivers for Linux now:
https://ftdichip.com/drivers/d2xx-drivers/
But you would need to modify them for the PID/VID in the HEX+CAN and I have no idea what's involved in doing that.

-Uwe-

 

[Mike@Gendan]

Translation: I still scan cars, try new linux things, and photoshop images when my loving father asks.

Quickly scanning through this thread, I read that as "I still steal cars..."

 

[UCyborg]

Recently installed VCDS on Wine 11.0 (the stable version), also successfully updated the HEX-V2 interface:

It shouldn't even be necessary to run the installer from command line, certainly one shouldn't use sudo for invoking WINE, Windows applications will see all possible permissions as is, running WINE as root may dirty up permission on Linux host. Though I've seen one distro (Puppy Linux) where things generally just run as root as is.

Anyway, at least on Ubuntu based distros, you typically get the option to run the file through WINE in file manager's right-click context menu. The only specialties, at least for HEX-V2 and HEX-NET interfaces is setting up udev rule and during setup, the only checkboxes you may want ticked in the installer are the ones for shortcuts.

Personally, I put the file named 01-ross-tech.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d with just the following:

SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0483", MODE="0666"

If I got the Linux conventions right, this is supposed to be the folder where the administrator puts their own rules. I don't know if there's any specific convention on numbering rules.

The program is a bit slower on WINE, on Windows 10, auto-scan of my 2022 Polo is done in exactly 1 min (or 59 s) on my machine while on WINE, takes 20 seconds longer. Some windows take noticeably longer to populate.

 

[waldo22]

FYI with the current Debian Testing (Debian 14 "Forky", and presumably anything with wine 10.18 and up), the i386 packages are no longer necessary.

See here:

Debian Forky How to Install Wine on Debian Forky

This page documents how to install Wine on Debian Forky. Wine is a compatibility layer that enables a Linux distribution to run Windows applications as if they were native Debian Forky applications.

wine.htmlvalidator.com

All I did was add the WineHQ keys:

wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key -

Add the WineHQ repo:

sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/dists/forky/winehq-forky.sources

Install Wine:

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Configure Wine:

wine winecfg

(I accepted the defaults)

Install VCDS:

wine Downloads/VCDSxxxx.exe

The only other thing I did was add @UCyborg's changes above to the udev rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0483", MODE="0666"

Everything installed and worked the first time, pretty great!