Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 04:56:38 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1018691798.79be27@mired.org> To: Ben Hockenhull <benh@blues.jpj.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB CueCat and FreeBSD? Message-ID: <15537.26966.149892.725287@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020407173617.H14492-100000@blues.jpj.net> References: <20020407173617.H14492-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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In <20020407173617.H14492-100000@blues.jpj.net>, Ben Hockenhull <benh@blues.jpj.net> typed: > Has anyone been able to use a USB CueCat with FreeBSD? I haven't got the USB cuecat, but I do have a serial one. You may want to take a look at my cuecatscript for it, in the misc/cuecat port. > I have one, and it's properly detected: > > ukbd0: KYE Systems :Cue:CAT, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3, iclass 3/1 > kbd1 at ukbd0 > > but when I scan things with it, I get no output. As I understand it, I > should be able to scan barcodes with this guy and get something on STDOUT, > but that doesn't seem to be the case. I assume I'm missing something > pretty obvious here. Ideas? You've got the I/O wrong. When you scan something with it, it's going to show up as INPUT, not OUTPUT. With the serial cuecat, it shows up as from the keyboard, which is STDIN. For the usb one, It should show up from ukbd0. So to use the cuecat script, you would run it as "cuecat < /dev/ukbd0", and then start scanning things with it. If you want the raw data, you can get that with "cat /dev/ukbd0" and then star scanning things. It's possible they changed the encoding for the this version to try and enforce their business model, in which case the cuecat port won't work. Googline for CueCat will be instructive in any case. Are they still giving them away free at Radio Shack? I'd like to get one to make sure the cuecat script works properly. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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