Re: Barcode reader. Need help and suggestions.
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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Barcode reader. Need help and suggestions.
Hello kind people. I have really no experience with such devices, so any help and guidance will be very helpfull. 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... When i plug it into PC lsusb gives Bus 005 Device 006: ID 04b4:bca1 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Barcode Reader 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. and i get this in dmesg: [ 7014.401237] generic-usb: probe of 0003:04B4:BCA1.0008 failed with error -22 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. So, as I guess all I need now, is software, that will output data from barcode reader to... well somewhere. I found this, but not sure if this is what I need, and anyways, I could not get it work. http://www.stackfoundry.com/other/softwedge/ So, if someone of you had experience with such devices, any pointers and guidance will be greatly appreciated. And sorry for my English. Regards -- Roman
