Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > Yesterday I received barcode scanner (for credit cards) from quite unknown > chinese manufacturer. it has USB interface.manufacturer is MSR (I guess), > and model is HCC7... > Bus 005 Device 006: ID 04b4:bca1 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Barcode Reader
I have never seen a barcode on any of my credit cards. Mine all have magnetic stripes. But I have used bar code readers on my Debian machine to read bar codes. > the barcode reader seems to be on, as I see green light. > When I put my visa card in it, device goes down, it seems to be turned off. You appear to have a non-keyboard version. The version of barcode scanners I have used have either been older serial port versions or newer USB versions. > After much reading, I found suggestion to connect barcode reader to PC > through usb2ps2 adapter. With this setup there seems some "Progress": when i > slide my visa card through scanner it doesnt turn off - The same behaviour > can be found on Windows PC if no driver for this device is loaded. Interesting. > So, as I guess all I need now, is software, that will output data from > barcode reader to... well somewhere. The USB barcode scanner versions that I have used so far all appear to the system as a keyboard. Scanning in a barcode acts as if the data were typed in at a keyboard. This type is fairly easy to use since there are no special drivers needed since the usb keyboard driver is already available. Unfortunately you appear to have a different type. > and i get this in dmesg: > [ 7014.401237] generic-usb: probe of 0003:04B4:BCA1.0008 failed with error -22 Perhaps the information in this thread will be of use. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1112575 Bob
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