[Gllug] bar code scanner software for linux

[Justin Perreault]

On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:07 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:39:49PM +0000, Justin Perreault wrote:
> > Any direction will help. Internet searching is not helping me so maybe
> > better search words than; linux bar code scanner reader.
> 
> As others have said, all barcode scanners I've seen have pretended to
> be keyboard devices, so didn't need any special drivers / software.
> What would be useful in this case is for you to plug the scanner into
> a USB port, and then try searching for the USB device code (use
> 'dmesg' and/or 'lsusb' commands to show this when the device is
> attached).  It will look like a pair of four digit hex numbers
> separated by a colon, eg. '012f:abcd'.

As I was going to sleep last night I realised I was starting from the
wrong end of the problem. Thanks for ref to the very useful dmesg and
lsusb. They produced:
dmesg
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 24
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: HID 1ade:1501
as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input8
input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 1ade:1501] on usb-0000:00:12.0-2
usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1ade, idProduct=1501
usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0

lsusb
Bus 003 Device 024: ID 1ade:1501

I am going to go look into all this now. 


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