On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:00:00AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:21PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > As far as I'm concerned, USB is a Very Black Art(tm), and has > > > been since day one. 8-(. You have to wonder how Windows > > > manages... > > > > Windows manages because it is in the vendor's interest for it to work > > and as such their install .inf script does the right thing, for some > > value of DTRT. > > This is the conspiracy theorist answer. I'm not saying that it > is wrong, but it seems to me that more stuff is "Plug-and-play" > without third party drivers in Windows, and without quirking. > That's true although there hardly seems a usb device that doesn't ask for an install disk! > If you want to push it out a bit, most USB stuff I've seen also > works with Macintosh systems, and *definitely* can't do anything > with a vendor supplied driver CDROM, so It Just Works(tm). Maybe > there is something to learn from Darwin in this area... I don't > know how public the USB code is at this point there, or if it is > published at all (though I thought it was). That's a fair point. I don't know the answer to this either. Joe -- Josef Karthauser (joe_at_tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================
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