On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 00:17 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
(Chris Sawtell wrote)
> > I suspect that their main problem is that they don't know where to
> turn to
> > find a person with both competent authoring and Linux skills at a
> reasonable
> > price.
>
> One of their staff reads NZLUG and occsionally posts when it's on
> topic
> for him. He's extremely helpful and never stroke me as incompetent,
> but
> lacks time.
>
> You should forward your email to him as a suggestion - Ross Hamblin,
> first.last at the DSE domain. He does listen, that's his job.
Yeah Chris, thats pretty unfair.
DSE are very open to suggestions. You might notice that they often
publish vendor id and product id on their web page. (see for example on
the XH8290 page you referred to.) They did so as a result of a polite
email exchange with a linux enthusiast a couple of years ago.
Frankly Chris if you futzed around for hours getting that device going
its more a reflection of you not using the info that DSE and the device
itself gave you. The device has been in the kernel for ages and ages.
You had the device and the vendor/product id's - both the DSE web site
and the device itself (lsusb, usbview, grep
Vendor /proc/bus/usb/devices) tell you that. At the very worst grep on
the kernel sources gives a very strong clue as to the right driver.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo/drivers/usb $ grep -i 0b39 * -r
media/dabfirmware.h:{ 13, 0x0b39, 0, \
{0x90,0x7f,0x98,0x74,0x20,0xf0,0xc0,0x02,0xc0,0x04,0xc0,0x05,0x12} },
net/pegasus.h:#define VENDOR_OCT 0x0b39
serial/ftdi_sio.h:#define OCT_VID 0x0B39 /* OCT\
vendor ID */
(sorry about the line breaks)
so the vendor ID produces three hits, one of which is
"serial/ftdi_sio.h"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo/drivers/usb $ grep -i 0421 * -r
misc/emi62_fw_s.h::10421600907619E064017035907687E0FFD3942D8F
misc/emi62_fw_m.h::10421F00907619E064017035907687E0FFD3942D86
serial/ftdi_sio.h:#define OCT_US101_PID 0x0421 /* OCT US101 USB
to RS-232 */
the product ID confirms it .
If you have the vendor and product ID you can establish whether the
product is likely to work in linux in advance of purchase.
>
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
