[Bug 429044] Re: USB barcode scanner (emulating keyboard) crashes with current kernel

[Jon Kjaersgaard]

@Hadmut Danisch
AFAIK it's not erroneous, the compagny (Tenx Technology) has chosen to give all there products the same ID (that's the idProduct line from the output of lsusb -v) and since usbhid uses idProduct and idVendor to identify devices it has been blacklisted. 
I doubt that that will change, and I question whether it can even be called a bug in usbhid. After all the culprit is Tenx, for failing to adhere to a known and documented standard.
I might wish that the blacklisting in usbhid happened in a config file rather than in a .c source file. That way those of us that need such a device could white-list it at will. But I doubt I will get it anytime soon

@Bernd Schlapsi :
Doesn't work for me in Karmic Koala (9.10) seems that the usbkbd module is no longer installed in Karmic as I get:
"FATAL: Module usbkbd not found."

Does any one know of an alternate workaround, preferably how to get usbkbd into karmic without compiling it your self?
I have tried writing my own udev rules, but so far they all hang on the fact that I need the usbkbd module on the system.

-- Jon

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USB barcode scanner (emulating keyboard) crashes with current kernel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429044
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