From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jun 23 6:26:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0986C14C35; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 06:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA15502; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:55:38 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990623225537:414=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:55:37 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" To: Nick Hibma Subject: Re: [usb-bsd] Re: USB scanners? Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com, usb-bsd@egroups.com Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990623225537:414=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 23-Jun-99 Nick Hibma wrote: > What kind of devices do you see showing up? > Would be a great help to get some idea of what is needed for the various > devices. For mice the support is pretty much cooked, but for example > keyboards sometimes have an extra mouse port. Well I have access to a HP ScanJet at work, and USB modems are real cheap :) IMHO its kinda pointless having USB mice/kbd since PS/2 does that pretty well, but stuff like scanners and modems which eat serial/parallel ports are handy to have as USB. Not that I actually OWN any USB HW (yet :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990623225537:414=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN3DgUWj0TqzKxF7VAQGAsQP/TJwaxWSdA53MXSXOmHwVDtLFBmtxjt4l 1eKzX1JpNKUyoGHcCCGsSnzDeG21bWm4AVY19LBDedBCGcXx+SWBHyCeygk5FfWB 6eYZHupsdx0EaXoyu+1rqcygCAr1VQ5d4EKHYuZ8sqG7pyM1i/UpG2gMyS8J7mnB +Fj9F/rUYmU= =xD9G -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990623225537:414=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message