RE: USB for Linux???
On 11-Aug-99 John Gay wrote:
> Does anyone know what the current status of USB on Linux is? I've been to the
> site listed on www.linux.org, but the page says that the person who started
> it
> has left to pursue other things now that he's graduated. I've got an Agfa
> 1212U
> USB scanner that I'd like to get working. I bought it in the states and need
> to
> get a European power supply for it. But right now it seem I can't use it with
> either Debian 2.1 OR WindowsNT 4.0 SP5 : ( Right now it is just sitting on my
> desk collecting dust. The latest word at the Linux USB page is mice and
> keyboards and such are working, but not image devices like printers or
> scanners.
> I'm willing to donate my time and scanner to help development, but I'm not a
> programmer and I'm fairly new to Linux. I've got Debian 2.1 installed on a
> PII
> 350 and am willing to test software for USB scanners if some one needs some
> debugging done. I realise I could just upgrade the Windows partition to 98 or
> 2000 to get USB, but I just don't trust either. I'd rather use Linux. If
> someone
> could tell me who is working on USB, I'd be glad to offer as much time as I
> could spare to test software for them.
Go to http://edge.kernelnotes.org/changelist.cgi?show=2.3. (mind the last pe
riod) and search through that for USB. I figure that USB support will be a lot
better as the kernel branch 2.3.x gets closer to 2.4.x. USB support right now
for printers and scanners is pretty miserable, AFAIK.
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