Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:48:02PM -0800, Phil Dibowitz wrote: >> What's odd is when I plug it in, it declares itself a HID device: >> >> bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Devices >> bInterfaceSubClass 0 No Subclass >> bInterfaceProtocol 0 None > > The reason this is, is because it used to be the only way you could > write a userspace USB "driver" on Windows. I know lots of manufacturers > made devices that "lie" that they are a HID device, and then use the > userspace HID interface to control the device. Just look at the large > HID blacklist in the hid core for examples of these devices. > > Oh, and it's "easier" to write userspace drivers for USB on Windows now, > but the interface is looney and complex, and you still have to "sign" > the driver in order to have it load properly. > > I don't know why they didn't just "borrow" our libusb interface, it > would have made the userspace code so much easier, but oh well...
I hadn't expected you to have so much Windows driver-coding experience. Wow. Anyway - in doing some research it looks like USBSnoppy and SnoopyPro are the standard USB Sniffers for trying to reverse-engineer a USB device from windows... but I don't see a Mac OS X equivalent. I have the remote working fine in OS X, but I don't have, nor do I plan to ever have, a winblows box lying around. Are there no free Mac USB sniffers? Is there any other way of doing this other than finding a windows box? -- Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Never write it in C if you can do it in 'awk'; Never do it in 'awk' if 'sed' can handle it; Never use 'sed' when 'tr' can do the job; Never invoke 'tr' when 'cat' is sufficient; Avoid using 'cat' whenever possible" -- Taylor's Laws of Programming
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