On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaof...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:29 PM, chris clark <clac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> the libusb mailing list is probably the best place to ask questions on >> it rather than PyUSB. However I've some rough notes that I wrote for >> my project at http://code.google.com/p/dava33display/wiki/PythonVersion >> . I have to confess, I'm a complete newbie with both libusb and PyUSB >> so I don't really know what I'm doing either but I managed to get >> lucky with my device under Windows :-) >> >> Linux is a lot easier to get going. >> > > It depends on how you look at it. Yes Linux is probably the easiest > to use when it comes to libusb since there is a generic USB kernel > driver (called usbfs). When there is no other kernel driver active > for a USB device, or you detach the original kernel driver, then usbfs > driver will be attached to the device and you can use libusb. > > For Windows, there is no generic USB drivers like usbfs. So you > have to use WinUSB or libusb-win32 driver so that you can use > libusb-1.0 Windows or libusb-win32 backend of pyusb. > > For Mac OS X, it is more difficult if there are existing drivers > attached to the device.
Thanks Xiaofan! Great explanation. That filled in a few blanks. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ pyusb-users mailing list pyusb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyusb-users
