[HC] USB Devices

[Mark Wieder]

On 07/06/2016 02:08 PM, Richmond wrote:

> What I would really like to know is what differentiates a keyboard (and
> my Nostromo n52) from all those other USB devices

Well, unfortunately there's no such thing as "all those other USB 
devices". It's a wild untamed world of devices out there, and there are 
loose standards to act as guidelines, but there's a lot of leeway for 
the writers of usb drivers to improvise. Modern operating systems have 
generic usb driver support that will handle a wide variety of different 
types of devices (you probably don't need drivers to plug in thumb 
drives or CD/DVD devices or keyboards/mice) but there are still usb 
devices that need special handling.

Your n52 seems to have firmware that allows it to be supported natively 
in more modern OS versions, but your n50 apparently doesn't, and so 
needs drivers installed.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com