Subject: Re: USB Support
To: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/02/1999 20:40:57
Dustin Sallings wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>
> # I think you should be able to get gphoto working if it works in Linux.
>
>         gphoto works fine with RS232, but not with USB.  Is it safe to
> assume that there's not as standard of a way to talk to USB in UNIX as
> there is for RS232?  That would be unfortuante.

That is a correct assumption.  NetBSD (and thereby FreeBSD and OpenBSD)
has a way, and Linux has no general way of doing it yet.  I don't know
about other Unix dialects.

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        -- Lennart