What USB driver do you miss on OS4?

@abalaban

Thats become windows think about USB ports in same way it thinks about COM1, COM2, COM3 ports, and it as one to one relation between the printer que/drivers and the USB ports, this does not work where well whit hub based architecture.

@abalaban
Why cant windows look for the driver like Amiga OS does?
surely this flies in the face of plug and play!
I really miss a usb HP Scanner driver and a decent olympus usb camera driver

@BrandonLee

CanoScan one please

@Chris

I got a CanoScan lide 80, so looking at SANE there many diffrent drivers for CanoScan serie.

What we really need is one to design a new API so you can connect WebCam, Camera, Scanner and so on, and 3rd party software can open the library and get access to WebCams or what it need without needing to have its own hardware drivers.

RWO

@Swisso

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what's wrong using it as massstorage device?

@pvanni

who knows...I try connect my old Olympus C220 and dont work..only see it on USB inspector list...but on OS3 whit Poseidon work OK!

@VooDoo

What driver does Poseidon use for it?

Check T:USB.log if your Camera is recognised as a "Floppy". If so replace the July version of DEVS:USB/fd/massstorage.usbfd with the one from Final.

@ZeroG

Dont know what driver poseidon using...I only connect it to subway and it works...like masstorage device,,

I try whit july and the final USB version..the same..

@VooDoo

strange, I own a C5050Z and it works well, tried also
other olympus (can't remember wich) and they all worked
fine, try to look at t:usb.log

@pvanni

Yeah very strange..

Here you can see my usb.log

I: [6FF73E40][USB stack] | | ==========
I: [6FF73E40][USB stack] | | USB System Software Task started
I: [6FF73E40][USB stack] | | Starting HCDs...
I: [6FF73E40][USB stack] | | ...HCDs started.
I: [6FF73F00][USB Fkt Init] | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x6FF8F900 is {Vendor: 0x0000, Product: 0x0000, Class: 09.00}
I: [6FE49010][USB Fkt Init] | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x6FF8FA80 is {Vendor: 0x0000, Product: 0x0000, Class: 09.00}
I: [6FF73F00][USB Fkt Init] | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x6FF8F900 initialized
I: [6FE49010][USB Fkt Init] | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x6FF8FA80 initialized
I: [6FE490D0][hub.usbfd] | Hub | All ports are empty
I: [6FE49070][hub.usbfd] | Hub port | Hub port 1 disabled - port is empty.
I: [6FE49070][hub.usbfd] | Hub port | Device found on hub port 2.
I: [6FE490D0][hub.usbfd] | Hub port | Hub port 1 disabled - port is empty.
I: [6FE490D0][hub.usbfd] | Hub port | Hub port 2 disabled - port is empty.
I: [6FE49070][hub.usbfd] | Hub port | Device at port 2 is full-speed.
I: [6FE49070][hub.usbfd] | Hub port | Device on hub port 2 succesfully added.
I: [6FE49130][USB Fkt Init] | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x6FF8FB40 is {Vendor: 0xB407, Product: 0x0201, Class: 00.00}
I: [6FE49130][USB Fkt Init] | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x6FF8FB40 initialized
I: [6FE49190][USB FD fkt start] | Sys_EndInitialAttachmentPhase | Initial USB Attachment Phase terminated
I: [6D5EF040][USB stack Process] | | USB System Software Process started.
I: [6D5EF040][USB stack Process] | | Error logging disabled
I: [6D5EF040][USB stack Process] | | Warning logging disabled
I: [6D5EF040][USB stack Process] | | Info logging disabled

@rwo

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concerning scanners and sane...
afaik the old betascan drivers are very similar to sane drivers. look here:

betascan driver development

or one of the drivers i used with my umax scanner some years ago (new version with usb support):

umax beta scan driver

maybe one could ask the original author (Svend Daugaard Pedersen) about the betascan sources?

byebye...

@rwo

Mine's a LiDE 20.

Absolutely agreed on the driver interface - needs something like the printer.device/devs:printers combination, but for scanners (ie. a usbscanner.device and devs:scanners directory containing the - perhaps simplified if most of the USB code can be kept in usbscanner.device - drivers)

Sorry to answer late even if I have a high interest about USB drivers, I am currently busy preparing the release of PointRider :)

@VooDoo
In the past, I tried to write some webcam drivers on MorphOS and OS4, looking at libusb too. But it failed because isochronous mode was not supported.
Pencam uses bulk and a driver would be feasible. The problem is finding old hardware like it.

Else I also have a serial-USB link with pl2303 and another one with an unsupported chip. At work we have many things that would be tested too.

I own several webcams and only one can be used with bulk transfers. I could try to use it but the webcam is not well documented.

For my personnal needs, I have a scanner AGFA Snapscan e25 and I plan to buy a new printer. For my camera (Canon PowerShot A560), I use directly the SD card.

Maybe in 2008 we will see open projects about USB devices on Amiga ?

@corto


Wohoo...great news from you..meep meep for new PointRider version :)


And nice to see that you have interes for write webcam drivers...if you need ppl for testing..I`am here...

Yeah 2008 will be great year for Amiga!!!belive me ;)

@pvanni
I already have mass storage devices on my printer (HP Photosmart C3180) and with my combination floppy/ multicard reader. It would be nice to have the option of using olympus camera as webcam or just as cctv cam.
It may be that none of this is possible without USB2 but I can wish all the same

Has anyone else need of Renasas USB3 controller xHCI support?

something I have picked up is a USB3 controller that works in a sam440flex...

anyway...I'll see how far I can hackup drivers that polymorph actually needs...

one reason why it's taking so fracking long is the driver level requirements...

Amd I *did* originally state I wasn't very knowledgable about drivers...

ahh well... back at it...

btw... definitely need some driver writing help with testing some little more than skeleton code so it's confirmed as working for more than just me...

anyone willing to test?