From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 05:15:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51D316A4DE for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glists@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D64943D45 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:15:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glists@comcast.net) Received: from [172.16.2.5] (c-67-188-64-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[67.188.64.158]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060818051535m13005q199e>; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:15:35 +0000 From: Serban Giuroiu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:15:36 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <8b4c81f0608172201v31a8f068x39b5e6d620e49a06@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c81f0608172201v31a8f068x39b5e6d620e49a06@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608172215.36479.glists@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Laser Scanners: Do you know what Kyeboard Wedge is ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:15:36 -0000 On Thursday 17 August 2006 22:01, Henry Lenzi wrote: > I found this, that claims to work "out of the box". Apparently, there > is this interface called Keyboard Wedge. > > Anyone know anything about this interface and how its integrated in > FreeBSD? > > There's some info here: http://www.csensors.com/kbdwedge.html I've used one of these before. As the link points out: "What exactly is a keyboard wedge? A keyboard wedge can be either hardware or software. Let's look at the hardware type first. It's called a wedge because it "wedges" in between the system keyboard and the computer console. The wedge interface is built into the barcode scanner. Examples are our AS8113 and GT-7000 hand held scannes. Physically, the keyboard plugs into the scanner and the scanner plugs into the computer console. When you type on the keyboard, the characters are sent to the computer as usual. When you scan a barcode, the barcoded characters are converted to keyboard "key codes", and sent to the computer. So, the computer thinks that the data in the barcode was typed on the keyboard." Basically, it it pretends to be a keyboard. It plugs into the PS/2 port of your computer, and your keyboard plugs in on top of it. When you scan a bar code, it "types" out the code as if you had typed it in by hand. It will work with any operating system that supports a PS/2 keyboard. No special driver necessary. -- Serban Giuroiu http://javatheory.net