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USB Keyboard Wedge Device

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Doug Bissett:

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What says it is an "unknown" device? If you are talking about the USBDock program (or the USB widget, which uses the same data), that is probably true. It says the same for about 90% of USB devices. That means nothing, other than nobody has put the device in the database. As long as it shows the device, it is "seen". To be used, it needs a driver.

I know nothing about the device that you are talking about. If it simply "keys in the data", the keyboard driver should handle it (I assume that the keyboard part works), although it may be necessary to tell the keyboard to use the keys from the reader (which eCS would have no idea how to do). If it is just a sub device of the keyboard, you will need to have a driver that will handle it. The data in the USBDock program, might shed some light on exactly what it is, that you are dealing with.

You may find some clues, if you look up how to use Bar Code readers with OS/2. I would think that it would be similar.

There is a thing called USB Extended Control Driver: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/drivers/misc/usbecd20.zip, which gives you an interface to "unknown" USB devices. That might help you develop some REXX (or other programing language) to access the reader.

ivan:
From what I have been able to find out it would appear that it needs more software than just the usb keyboard driver .

The keyboard driver is just the interface between the device and the reader software and as far as I know there is no reader software for OS/2 eCS although IBM might have the software for some of their very large OS/2 clients.

The simple way to put the usb keyboard driver into your config.sys is to cut this DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\USBKBD.SYS  and paste it into your config.sys with all the other usb lines.

If you were using OS/2 I would say that you should get a copy of usbres.wpi and usbhcd196.zip from hobbes, install usbres and update usbresmg.sys from the zip, but I understand that eCS has something that replaces usbres and is supposed to do the same job - giving details of attached usb devices.  Because I don't have eCS here I will have to leave that to others to say what it is [see Doug's reply]

Martin, is it possible to delete the second copy of this thread?

Martin Iturbide:
Hi. I removed the duplicated threads.

1) If this device works like a keyboard input on other OSes, maybe it should work on OS/2. I had seen that some magnetic card readers works just like a keyboard, then you swipe the card, it just like the keyboard is typing the characters on it. But I don't know about this device.

2) If it does not work as a keyboard input, we need an specific driver for it under the OS/2-eCS platform, which we don't have.

If you require this for a bank, maybe you can hire someone from the OS/2 community to help out, or even hire a driver developer. It will depend if the bank wants to invest to solve this issue.

Regards

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