Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-10 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Brodbeck wrote: | | On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: |> When I worked at Radio Shack in 1996 (in Canada), they were just |> switching their POS from a dos (on a Tandy 386) with terminals to a Unix |> (SCO) system with the sam

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: When I worked at Radio Shack in 1996 (in Canada), they were just switching their POS from a dos (on a Tandy 386) with terminals to a Unix (SCO) system with the same serial terminal. For barcode, they had a device that went between the keyb

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:02:53PM -0500, steve wrote: > you know ive been looking for something that I could use to input upc > data to say kbarcode or something like that. Have been trying to > convince the company I work for to spring for handheld printers/scanner > solution to no avail. (reta

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-10 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |> |> | | It's a distinct device - you should be able to read directly from that | /dev that's created when you plug it in. When in X it typically works | like a second keyboard, inserting the text wherever a keyboard's entry | would end up. | | Andy

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:33:56PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > but I'm not sure how to read from it. Where is the ASCII output from > the unit going, theoretically? Problem resolved--sort of. You actually have to scan a control code to tell the unit it's attached to a "notebook" even if it isn

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I have a WASP pen scanner that seems to be recognized by the kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev input: Marson Wasp Barcode USBi as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Marson Wasp Barcode USBi] on us

Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have a WASP pen scanner that seems to be recognized by the kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev input: Marson Wasp Barcode USBi as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Marson Wasp Barcode USBi] on usb-:00:03.3-1.7 usbcore: registered