access to USB device

Hi,

With my newly delivered Photovoltaic solar panels comes a little device
called sunny beam to track the power production of the panels, and load the
data to a PC.
I setup the SW with wine with no problems.
When I want to access the device via USB, the application only shows com
ports, and not the USB port.

When I do the same in Xp, It shows the com ports and a menu entry for USB
connection.
It looks like the USB interface is not recognised in linux.
it does not show in lsusb
marc@L1:/media/cdrom0$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04f2:0200 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0b0e:444b GN Netcom
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1587:002d
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0db0:4011 Micro Star International Medion Flash XL
V2.0 Card Reader
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

When looking in Kinfocenter, the devic s recognised, so I guess
wine does not recognise the usb interface

Sunny Beam

Manufacturer: SMA Technologie AG
Serial #: 00014365

Class 0
Subclass 0
Protocol 0
USB Version 1.01
Vendor ID 0x1587
Product ID 0x2d
Revision 0.00
Speed 12 Mbit/s
Channels 0
Max. Packet Size 8

Any ideas on how to get this working ?
The website of the manufacturer can be found at
http://www2.sma.de/en/solar-technology/products/communication/communication-products-software/sunny-beam/overview/index.html

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MarcB
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