Simple manner to read 1-pin high/low from USB under FBSD?

[Sven Hazejager]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

>> My new server probably won't have a parallel port anymore. So the question
>> is: is there a simple manner to read 1-pin high/low from USB under FBSD?
>> Any examples anywhere?
>
> usbconfig in FreeBSD-8/9 supports control requests from the command line.
>
> usbconfig -u XXX -a YYY do_request <see help menu>

Thanks for your reply, would I need some GPIO device like this:
http://www.fivemanconspiracy.com/node/45

Please excuse my ignorance, I'm completely new to low-level hacking and 
I'm very happy that I got the parallel port option going in the first 
place :-)

Sven