I'm trying to get the SoundWeb control software running under WINE on Red Hat 8.0 with basically no luck. The download gives you an .exe that is an InstallShield installer, and when I run that under WINE, it puts up a dialog that says something along the lines of "Wrong version of Windows", and exits. Of course it doesn't say which version it wants, or which version it thinks it has. I had someone do an install on a real Windows box and send me the unpacked files (it adds no registry entries, thankfully) but they also die with some internal error (I'm guessing meaning something along the lines of, "I didn't find the sub-programs I needed.") But then, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with the .ini file, besides put it in /usr/share/wine-c/windows/.

I've basically never used WINE before. Any suggestions where to start? There seem to be a bunch of mailing lists, but with extremely low signal. (Yes, I've seen this. It is very long and overly optimistic.)

Oh, it also spits out this shit constantly:

fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout Your keyboard layout was not found!
Using closest match instead (United States keyboard layout) for scancode mapping.
Please define your layout in windows/x11drv/keyboard.c and submit them
to us for inclusion into future Wine releases.
See documentation/keyboard for more information.
...
Warning: L"/usr/bin/wine" not accessible from a configured DOS drive
Warning: L"/usr/bin/wine" not accessible from a configured DOS drive
Warning: L"/usr/bin/wine" not accessible from a configured DOS drive

Googling on that (and even reading the manual) has failed to provide any clue at all. This happens on multiple machines, so it's not like I'm using some crackpot keyboard driver.