On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:34:54AM -0500, Ron Gage wrote: > Greetings > > I have in my greedy little hands a USB based system locking device > called a XyLoc (from a company called Ensure Technology - they > supposedly have a partnership with Novell if that helps at all - > http://www.ensuretech.com/mirror/company/partnering/solutionpartners.html). > They (of course) do not provide any Linux support and I would like to > change that by reverse engineering the USB protocol of the device and > writing a driver for it. Yes, I know - a lot of work. I've done > similar things before (though with Ethernet and not USB). > > Are you aware of any resources or guides for reverse engineering a USB > protocol? I have a Windows machine and will be utilizing USB-Snoopy to > capture the wire communications. That's generally the best way to do this (or you can use vmware and monitor the usb stream from Linux underneath Windows, using usbmon.) > I've done this in the past for this device and ran into multiple road > blocks including a supposedly windows-only packet type that this > device appeared (at the time) to rely on extensively. What do you mean by a "windows-only packet type"? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
