Linux

Opticon does not officially endorse any linux based operating system. Opticon provides no guarantee it's products will work with any linux based operating system. Below are some things we have noticed that may be helpful if you are hoping or planning to use Opticon products with a linux based operating system.

USB-HID

Most (if not all) distributions of Linux provide support for HID devices. Almost all of Opticon's cabled barcode scanners can be configured using Opticonfigure to transmit data in real time as a USB-HID device.

USB Serial Drivers

There appears to be a serial driver in the mainline Linux 2.6 kernel which provides support for our 1D products as TTY devices in Linux. It was written by a developer at Novell (not by Opticon) originally for the SUSE distribution. It is also a part of the Ubuntu distribution, at least as of Karmic Koala. The driver appears to only support our 1D products which use the 0009 device ID with our vendor ID. Devices which use the 0002 device ID do not appear to have a driver. When you plug one of our 1D products in over USB, the serial driver will mount it in /dev/ttyUSBx depending on how many USB serial devices are mounted. At that point you should be able to treat it like a serial TTY.