Quote Originally Posted by Soukyuu View Post
WINE is extremely unreliable when it comes to network from my experience. For example, I just set everything up on ubuntu 12.04 and I am only getting network access when starting the program via command prompt, but not if I launch the exe directly.

And in case of ffxivboot, it fails it's version check no matter how I start it. It might be because I'm launching it from an NTFS partition, idk.

i am sorry to hear that. the last ubuntu variant i used with it is 11.10 do you have winhttp and ie8 installed? have you tried WINETricks?