Re: USB scanners?

Milon Firikis (milonf@ariadne-t.gr)
Mon, 07 Dec 1998 14:48:51 +0200

David Huggins-Daines wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 03:16:49AM -0500, Matto Marjanovic wrote:
> > This might be feasible soon with parallel ports, at least under Linux.
> > Anyone know what the "parport" driver in the newer kernels does?
>
> Unfortunately, drivers for specific devices will probably still need to
> run in kernel-space.
>
> > I'm not sure how to "focus on USB" if I have no USB equipment.
> > What is the state of general USB support in various OS's? As soon as
>
> NetBSD has it. Noone else does. For once, BSD beats Linux in hardware
> support. Weird... :-)
>

http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB/index.html

I think this is the address for the LINUX USB effort.

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