Because Linux handles hardware devices differently (using the sysfs filesystem and the usbutils package), simply installing ChipGenius via Wine often results in failure. Wine cannot easily translate the low-level hardware access requests that ChipGenius makes to the Windows kernel into Linux kernel commands.
: The most reliable way to use ChipGenius on a Linux host is to run a Windows VM and use "USB Passthrough" to give the VM direct control of the flash drive. ChipGenius - Download - Softpedia chipgenius linux
Note: Running Wine as sudo is generally discouraged for security, but for hardware-level interrogation, it is often the only way the tool can "see" the raw USB bus. Option 2: The Linux Native Way (Terminal Tools) but for hardware-level interrogation
