Reading from USB devices
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Jul 21 14:26:55 UTC 2008
Andrew Falanga <af300wsm at gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to read data from a USB device that is not a thumb drive.
> How would I do this? For instance, it's an oximeter for reading
> biometrics. What libraries exist for reading things like VID/PID, and
> most importantly, reading the data from the device?
Start with usb(4). HID devices tend to be easier to deal with than
others, but I doubt your instruments are in that category.
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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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