Re: [Libusbx-devel] Example udev rules file

2012-10-30 Thread Philip.Joslin
Be careful on this last. We found that on certain distros, a reboot was necessary (we tried the reload commands, but to no avail). I don't remember now which distros were the problem (sorry). -Original Message- From: Tormod Volden [mailto:lists.tor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30,

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Problems installing WinUSB or libusb-win32using Zadig

2012-10-01 Thread Philip.Joslin
We ran into the same problem with XP after migrating to W8 level co-installers for WinUSB. We had to roll back our support for XP. This can also occur if an item is built on Vista and you attempt to run it on W8 (there are some items in the support DLL that are no longer there). -Original Mes

Re: [Libusbx-devel] libusbx v1.0.12 has been released

2012-06-18 Thread Philip.Joslin
Thanks for your comments. Just a note in regards to WinUSB and Windows 8. It would appear that a device will not need to provide an INF as long as it provides Windows specific info in its OS descriptors (refer to Microsoft tech note http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh450799

Re: [Libusbx-devel] libusbx v1.0.12 has been released

2012-06-18 Thread Philip.Joslin
One of the major factors in using HID in unorthodox ways is that there is no need for the Windows INF/driver install business. This has always been a potential problem with a customer's machine (permissions and the like). I agree that many devices using this class might be better served using bulk,

[Libusbx-devel] Windows 8

2012-06-08 Thread Philip.Joslin
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Re: [Libusbx-devel] [PATCH] Add topology calls

2012-05-14 Thread Philip.Joslin
When our app first comes up (actually the interface layer for our apps), it uses libusb to get a list of devices that are currently on the bus. The information in that list is placed in our own internal list, filtered by the user's request to our interface layer (in that, all USB devices, devices w

Re: [Libusbx-devel] [PATCH] Add topology calls

2012-05-11 Thread Philip.Joslin
Pete wrote: "It is clear that part of libusb(x) during enum aims at duplicating what we would actually like the OS to provide us with, which is an up to date device list, with all the USB properties libusb(x) requires already filled, and preferably cached. If the OS doesn't, I think we could us