This is new stuff to me....
Anyone here happen to know about handheld scanners?
USB Human Interface Device
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When I attempt to scan, the scanner beeps, an hour glass appears (which
is normal), then nothing... it should echo back to the text box I'm
sitting in or the notepad doc I have open for testing. Nothing...
Any help out there?
We use handheld scanners that sound like they are similar to the one you are using in my libraries. With mine, as far as the OS is concerned they are just a keyboard (that happens to only imput numbers, and do it very rapidly...). Have you tried side-stepping the HID issue entirely by just turning on "Legacy USB Emulation" in the BIOS? That way, the HID-compliant USB stuff looks AT / PS/2 devices to the OS?
Also, it might be useful to boot the machine with a linux Live CD of some sort and see if it operates as you would expect in there. That will allow you to eliminate hardware oddities as a source of problems, possible let you see more useful information about the device, and (if it works) confirm that it is in fact a HID-compliant device.
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-Regards-
-Quentin Hartman-
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