Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1193 from 2003/2/24
From: Helsinki, Finland
Quote:
Yasu wrote:
The reason is most probably poorly written USB drivers.
Or more like, "designing the hardware so, that it requires specific drivers, and doesn't work with the standard (in this case, USB HID) drivers".
There can be several reasons, such as:
-Wanting to make sure that the user installs "own" drivers with all the bundled crap the user doesn't need
-Wanting to do something the standard drivers can't (and choosing to "screw others", and just write custom drivers)
Both reasons are good enough for "pick some other device instead", even if there ARE drivers for your hardware.
There are quite a few "special workarounds for special devices" in the linux kernel, that's why they work there.
