What USB driver do you miss on OS4?

I'm looking into USB for OS4 and I like to know what drivers/devices people need/want for os4

This list will help possible developers to start on drivers there is most wanted and apriciated.

I for one whould like to finish my PTP driver but there is a problem with the HCD driver for that to finish

Also I have Floppy Disk support for OS4 on my todo list.

At the moment I'm working on another usb device that I hope to finish real soon.

So People start telling my what you need and hope for.

NB: There is no prommises.. this list is only a guidens

RWO


The list so far:

1) Scanner (Needs Isochronous)
2) PTP (95% done)
3) WebCam (Needs Isochronous)
4) WLan/wifi (Needs Isochronous)
5) Bluetooth
6) EHCI
7) Palm
8) Dot4
9) CDC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_communications_device_class
10) cm15a http://www.linuxha.com/USB/cm15a.html
11) MTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol

@rwo

I only miss 2 things:
1. PTP driver so that I can connect Canon cameras and access the files on their memory card :)
2. USB2.0 EHCI driver so that accessing memory sticks, etc. is not limited to <1MB/s speeds.

@rwo

PTP.

An USB scanner driver could be useful too at some point, I guess.

@rwo

i missed a USB-Scanner driver too, because my Epson Perfection 1250 won`t work :(

@rwo
I like the dazzle video digitiser. But to be useful editing tools would be needed. There are probably better ones available, but it is cheap at least (only up to SVHS though).

Scanners would be the other, but mine are old and I do not where that technology is these days, if we had good OCR it would compliment that.

@rwo

VHI driver for WebCam/scanner maybe.

@rwo

Webcam and scanner are the main ones I miss.

Hans

@rwo

A Dot4 compatible USB printer driver (usbprinter.device doesn't work with my printer)

Bluetooth or WLAN USB dongles. I don't have any use for these myself (yet), but the Bluetooth one might be handy for people syncing phones etc (WLAN is better served with a PCI card). However, it's a big project as you would need to write an entire Bluetooth stack as well as the USB driver...

Chris

@rwo

Not exactly driver, but software that could enable using usb palmlike devices with amiga (maybe with spitfire? by replacing palmlink.library or related serial device?)

Jack

USB missile launcher drivers

@ikir

LOL

@ikir

an USB missile launcher driver is part of the last (v3.6) Poseidon update

OK it's not for OS4 but it exists

BTW, yes, an usb scanner driver is necessary. and a Amiga twain implementation too will be cool

@voxel

TWAIN support or SANE support?

@all

TWAIN is Windows and
SANE seems to be everything else,

Windows also has TWO variations, "STI" and "WIA"
in addition to BlueTooth and other support stack materials,

I would personally prefer the SANE solution since
reference drivers for BSD & Linux systems would then be available,
along with also *other* types of drivers

afaik someone is already working on sane-drivers and
sane-libs package support as part of the OpenOffice effort.

anyone care to correct me for the above?

I'd like to be able to use an USB bluetooth adapter.

@rwo

Maybe some coop with chris hodges? maybe you could come to an agreement to port posiedon as a commercial product for OS4.

@Chris

I agree, a driver for a WLAN Stick would be very usefull!

@rwo

1 scanner
2 graphics tablets (some work, loads don't)

For the scanners I think a parallel port wrapper like usbprinter.device is needed so that ADPro / ImageFX / ScanQuix etc. would think they where using a parallel scanner same as OS3.x

Or try fixing FXScan's usb drivers, Maybe IOSpirit will even let you have the source now they've dumped Amiga.

@rwo

My fawours would be scanner and wlan.

thanks.

@rwo

I'm currently working on FTDI drivers.
The FT232 serial chip is one of the most popular,
and has been embedded into a LOT of devices.

I signed an NDA and got the documents from FTDI.
I've only been delayed while I finished a hardware
project that I wrapped up two weeks ago.

Yes, I realize that the serial port is getting old,
but I have a lot of serial toys, and I'd like the idea
of having as many as I want off of a USB Hub.

The USB MIDI driver has been quite successful so far,
so I'm working off of that for the FTDI driver.

I hope to get the USB side worked out first, then go
looking for example OS4 device code for that half of it.

It won't be long until I'll be asking for help, I'm sure.



LyleHaze

@rwo

How about this?



I know its a bit of a niche device but i would really like to use this on my amigaone.



The page below has the linux driver along with sources.
linux usb driver