Unknown devise

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Sep 2 23:44:49 UTC 2008


John Hubbard wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I have a box that plugs into a USB port which turns on this thing:
>>
>> The box is supposed to output video and audio in a MPEG-2 compression 
>> formate. The darn thing will not work on Linux it appears.
>>   
>>     
> Under what ever OS the box was designed to work with, the operating 
> system 'writes' a stream of data to the usb port.  That data is 
> interpreted by the box and turned into a signal that is output on the 
> boxes ports.  If you can figure out what to write to the USB you should 
> be  able to get it to work. 
> Did you use a program/driver under the other OS to talk to the box.  If 
> so can you run the program under wine or install the driver with 
> ndiswrapper?  Is there any Linux support for the box under the 
> manufactures website?
>
>   
    You deleted the important part. I guess you didn't realize that. So 
your answer is worthless :-)

Karl


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