[Nut-upsuser] Zigor Ebro 650 compatibility

[Chris Rees]

On 11 August 2012 20:29, Martyn Hill <martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/08/2012 20:24, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> On 11 August 2012 19:14, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/8/11 Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11 Aug 2012 13:03, "Martyn Hill" <martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>>> My FreeBSD 8 appears to be running/linking against libusb20 - the 'new'
>>>>> one...
>>>>
>>>> We killed the old one a long time ago ;)
>>>
>>> not sure of what you exactly mean here!
>>> libusb 0.1 is still avail in FBSD 9:
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=libusb&stype=all
>>>
>>> Update: while reading the comment on  libusb1.0 website [1], I now
>>> understand why you're using "2.0"!
>>>
>>> "FreeBSD 8 and above include a FreeBSD-specific reimplementation of the
>>> libusb-1.0 API, so your applications will probably work there too. The
>>> source code for this library can be found:
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libusb/"
>>>
>>> but still, your "killing" comment leave me in a doubtful state ;)
>>>
>> Oops, haha, sorry, that's right; we didn't kill it, just switched
>> default, and loads of ports needed modification over it.
>
>
> Do we know how to 'use' the legacy libusb 0.1 in FreeBSD?

As Arnaud pointed out, they're still there; including usb.h uses the
libusb 0.1 compat layer.

>> Thinking this could be an issue, I have a Raspberry Pi here too,
>> running Debian; I'll have a go to see if it makes any difference.

I must confess to being totally hopeless with Linux, having not used
it properly in a long time.  My attempts to run blazer_usb result in
inability to detach kernel driver.

http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/blazer-rpi.txt

Worth a try though.

Chris