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From: Mike Scott on 28 Mar 2010 02:38 Warren Block wrote: > Mike Scott <usenet.12(a)spam.stopper.scottsonline.org.uk> wrote: >> Patrick Lamaizière wrote: >> ... >>> You can ask the freebsd-usb, freebsd-driver mailing lists too and you >>> may use the libusb(3) for a driver in userland. >> Bearing in mind libusb is in the ports and said there to be 'beta' >> quality. (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/libusb/pkg-descr) > > With the new USB system in FreeBSD 8, libusb is part of the OS. > > devel/libusb/Makefile: > .if ${OSVERSION} >= 800069 > IGNORE= has been already included into base system > .endif > I stand corrected; thanks. Does that mean it has also improved in quality? -- Mike Scott (unet2 <at> [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England
From: Patrick Lamaizière on 28 Mar 2010 06:48 Mike Scott : >> With the new USB system in FreeBSD 8, libusb is part of the OS. >> >> devel/libusb/Makefile: >> .if ${OSVERSION} >= 800069 >> IGNORE= has been already included into base system >> .endif >> > > I stand corrected; thanks. Does that mean it has also improved in quality? I use a libusb driver for my printer and my scanner (hplip port). That works fine.
From: Warren Block on 28 Mar 2010 11:44 Mike Scott <usenet.12(a)spam.stopper.scottsonline.org.uk> wrote: > Warren Block wrote: .... >> With the new USB system in FreeBSD 8, libusb is part of the OS. > > I stand corrected; thanks. Does that mean it has also improved in quality? Maybe. Certainly it's at least as good. My scanner still works, for instance. Hans Petter Selasky has been very responsive on the USB mailing list to problem reports about the new USB system, which gives it a huge advantage over the old one. -- Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
From: Михаил Слюсарев on 29 Mar 2010 07:50
Thanks a lot to everybody! I relized that I need to learn much. And I hope in next time my questions will be more specific. |