USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Wed Jan 13 02:30:20 UTC 2010


On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Frank wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Does it use libusb? If so, then it should "Just Work" assuming that
> > permissions are correct (note the nodes are /dev/usb/X.Y.Z now)
> >
> > --
> > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> > "The nice thing about standards is that there
> > are so many of them to choose from."
> >  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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>
> I don't know if it uses libusb.  The makefile has the following:
>
> .if defined(WITH_USB) && ${OSVERSION} >= 800069
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-generic-usb
> .endif
>
> Does this tell you?

No, I checked the code, it doesn't use libusb :(

I guess it will need to be ported manually, I have no idea how difficult 
that would be though.

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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