On 15 May 2002, Thunder Bear wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 15:18, Thunder Bear wrote: > > > You can get it for free from Radio Shack (serial version) [snip] > > Not serial. My bad. It is PS/2 and goes inline between the keyboard > and the PS/2 keyboard port.
Yes, and that version is going to be much easier to deal with in Linux, since you don't need a driver; the numbers from the barcode are just "typed" into the keyboard port, and the software doesn't know the difference. Here's one of the guides on "neutering" the Cue Cat: http://www.cexx.org/cuecat.htm Pretty interesting stuff. I actually have one laying around somewhere; I might give that a try this weekend. Not that I have anything that really needs scanning... --Jeremy _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
