On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Gabriel Rossetti <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/11/07, Stephan Meyer wrote: >>/ > On 4/10/07, Xiaofan wrote: > />/ > The thing is that you need to uninstall the kernel HID driver and > />/ > use the libusb-win32 device driver for this kind of HID device. This > />/ > significantly reduces the usability of libusb-win32 for HID device > />/ > under Windows. Yet many USB device disguise them as HID device > />/ > just to avoid writing a device driver. > />/ > > />/ > Just wondering if it is possible to use an alternative backend > />/ > (Windows HID apli) and make libusb a wrapper on top of it. > />/ > I understand then it should perhaps be called libhid-win32 then. > />/ > />/ This sounds like a great idea! I'll add a native HID backend to the > />/ next version of the DLL. It should be possible to implement most of > />/ libusb's features on top of Windows' hid.dll such as open, close, > />/ interrupt-read/write and basic control messages. The rest can be > />/ emulated/simulated. > /> > > (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libhid-discuss/2007-April/000136.html) > > I searched both libhid's and libusb's websites and I found nothing > concerning this, does anyone know what the current status is? Does a > driver have to be installed to use libhid on windows? Also, what is the > difference/advantage with using libhid in comparison with directly using > libusb's hid support? You can try out the SVN version of libsub-win32 1.0. Last time I tried it out, it has the HID backend (along with WinUSB backend and the libusb-win32 device driver backend). It could find the device, but interrupt read/write did not work. The SVN version: http://libusb-win32.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libusb-win32/trunk/libusb1/ It seems to me that this has not been updated for a while. So I guess it is still not working. But Stephan mentioned that he would try to finish this with this year. libhid is right now based on libusb. Xiaofan _______________________________________________ libhid-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/libhid-discuss http://libhid.alioth.debian.org/
