On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 13:54 -0600, Loye Young wrote: > I, a humble pilgrim in the Land of Tux, have spent over a year seeking > a simple answer to what seems to me a simple question: How do I expose > my RS232 barcode scanner to the input layer so that the scanned > information shows up in applications? Basically, I need the scanner to > act like another keyboard. Scan a code, see the numbers.
I can give you some hints but it will involve writing a program. It can all be done in userspace though, saving any pain of messing with the kernel internally/kernel recompiling. The kernel has a driver called uinput which lets you inject input events into the kernel from a userspace piece of code. You can write a program to read data from /dev/ttyS0 (at 9600bps) and pass it to this uinput driver. That should then do exactly what you need. Working out for to use uinput caused me a few headaches but I can point you at some example code: http://svn.o-hand.com/view/misc/trunk/zaurusd/apps/tskeys/tskeys.c?rev=59&view=markup This code adds support for offscreen soft "buttons" on a touchscreen. It passes the key events to the kernel via uinput. Cheers, Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
