Subject: Re: Missile launchers vs uhid
To: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
From: Dunceor <dunceor@gmail.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/28/2007 18:30:51
On 2/28/07, Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:59:25PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> >> I've got a USB missile launcher:
> >> uhidev0 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0
> >> uhidev0: vendor 0x1130 Tenx Nonstandard Devic, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2,
> >> iclass 3/0
> >> uhid0 at uhidev0: input=0, output=64, feature=8
> >> uhidev1 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 1
> >> uhidev1: vendor 0x1130 Tenx Nonstandard Devic, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2,
> >> iclass 3/0
> >> uhid1 at uhidev1: input=0, output=8, feature=0
> >> ...
> >> They both claim the device directly and try to detach the kernel uhid
> >> driver before writing a very simple usb control message. This seems a lot
> >> simpler than messing around with libusbhid, but I can't see how to achieve
> >> it on NetBSD.
> >
> > Is it not a bug in the usbhid code then or is the device a non standard
> > USB?
>
> I think it's just a difference between *BSD's API and the Linux one. In
> pkgsrc/libusb, the function to detach is commented out if you are on *BSD:
>         int usb_detach_kernel_driver_np(usb_dev_handle *dev, int interface);
>
> By disabling uhidev (so the missile launcher appears as ugen) and taking
> the above into account, the Linux driver works. So I can shoot things from
> NetBSD now, but it's not an ideal way of doing it (it really is a hid
> device - it appears like that under Windows).
>
> --
> Stephen
>
>

OpenBSD imported support for it like 3 month's ago.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/usb/

vendor TENX             0x1130        Ten X Technology, Inc.

/* Ten X Technology, Inc. */
 	 product TENX MISSILE            0x0202        Missile Launcher

BR
Dunceor