10 May
2007
10 May
'07
3:10 a.m.
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 04:40 -0500, Jules Richardson wrote:
Ensor wrote:
You plug it in, then you play with it for hours trying to get the darn thing
to work.
It seems to be the software side that nearly always causes me problems. Even
under Linux it seems a total mess and any logfile output isn't particularly
helpful in diagnosing problems (and of course under MS Windows you're lucky if
you even *get* any logfile output when something goes wrong)
My experience so far with USB cameras, mice, webcams, RS232 adapters and CF
adapters has been decidedly not good...
Sounds like you're just having bad luck. The only USB devices I've
entirely failed to get working in Linux have been an el-cheapo DVB-T
adaptor and a MOTU Midi Timepiece-type thing (can't remember the exact
model).
Everything else has worked perfectly, instantly. MIDI interfaces, audio
interfaces, GPS receivers, cameras, disk drives, MP3 players, serial
ports, parallel ports, and probably some other stuff I can't quite
remember just now.
The only thing I have had a degree of difficulty with was one GPS module
that had a slightly odd serial-to-USB interface inside. It took a
couple of minutes to hack up a suitable kernel module for that.
Gordon
....USB really *is* plug-and-play.
LMAO! Maybe in some weird, parallel universe....