Accessing USB from linux libusb-0.1-aware application (under linuxulator in freebsd 8)

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Thursday 10 May 2012 17:14:50 Antuan Avdioukhine wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> Can anybody assist me with URLs/docs/whatever how to access USB device from
> linux application running on freebsd 8.2?
> 
> I'm trying to get worked scanner which have binary-only linux driver for
> SANE.
> 
> The first trouble is that linux libusb searches for usb device entries in
> /dev/bus/usb/<bus-no>/<dev>, and so it cannot search freebsd's
> /deb/usb/n.m.k device list.
> 
> So, ok, it can be patched. But, there is a question: if I'll make patch to
> change such behavior (change usb_os_find_devices and usb_os_find_busses in
> linux.c from linusb-0.1 sources) and rebuild libusb as it is for linux
> environment -- is it will be enough linuxulator? I mean, will linuxulator
> translate correctly usb related ioctl calls?
> 
> On the other hand, maybe I am going wrong way at all? :) Maybe there is a
> simple solution?

Hi,

Search for libusb2debian.

--HPS