Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

From: Alan
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 17:31:36 EST


> > Like Jeff said, many of these are quite old.
>
> OK, but why isn't your army of volunteers fixing them?

One of the problems if lack of hardware. It's very hard to fix a
prehistoric serial driver if you don't have an ISA bus box with the
needed slot let alone the card.

And why bother - its hardware that works on all the cases that matter

> Device Class", but nothing happens when I plug it into my Linux box.
> I assume the device class is specified as part of the USB spec...

UVC is "interesting", in a bad kind of interesting sort of way. See
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/linux-uvc however

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