[Ham-Mac] How to create a device driver???

[Lew Phelps K6LMP]

THe Good News is that the company in China that makes the device has  
said they will email me a Linux driver for it.  I will report when I  
get it, and unless it is protected intellectual property, post it to  
my web site for downloading.

I love the 897D. It has the same "innards" electronically as the  
smaller FT-857D, but with its larger size and increased weight you  
get a larger visual display, larger knobs and buttons, self-contained  
battery capability (or a self-contained power supply that supposedly  
is pretty noisy), and the cachet of something that looks like it came  
out of an Abrams Battle Tank.

Lew K6LMP




On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Michael Carter wrote:

> Unless it's a common HID-type device (keyboard, etc), you're going  
> to need a specific driver written to handle data correctly.
>
> I've written Mac USB drivers in the past, and I've always been  
> lucky to have access to the report and element info from the dev  
> who wrote the firmware. That coupled with a good understanding of  
> IOKit and it's not so bad. :)
>
> Oh, it's kinda nice to actually have the gear as well. :)
>
> Hmmm....I've been looking at the 897D seriously, too...
>
>
> O