Most simple USB devices or boards just emulate a serial port. I've seen it =
in
GPS devices (ok, it even makes sense there..) but also on tons of other dev=
ices.


At 21.06 2011.08.30, you wrote:
>On 30/08/2011 18:59, M.L. wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Michael Watterson<mike@radioway.org>  w=
rote:
>>> Note x86 Linux drivers are no use to you either. Open Source?
>>> Best of luck recompiling a device driver for a different architecture
>>> and version of Kernel. Been there, done it. So possible.
>> Linux doesn't require separate drivers for every USB device. You can
>> use libusb et. al. to talk to any USB device from non-kernel mode.
>> This depends on your device being non-proprietary, of course.
>
>Well, neither does OSX or Windows. There are lots of Generic HID devices=20
>that will use the same driver. Also sound.
>
>But environmental sensors are likely to need their own drivers.
>
>Linux is no better than Windows for USB. Sometimes worse. I have nice=20
>stuff USB that works on XP and not Ubuntu.
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