USB just does not work like that. When the usb device is connected a device driver is loaded for the device. If the device is a HID (Human Interface Device) like a mouse, the operating system provides the driver. If the device is vendor specific the manufacturer of the device provides the device driver. The device driver presents some sort of software interface to applications. The interface presented depends very much on the nature of the device.

The device that you describe sounds like it has an ethernet port on it and acts as an IP device. That has nothing at all to do with it possibly having a USB port, except that it may present itself as a class of USB device that looks to the system as an IP device. If that is the case the your Telnet technique would still work. If not, then you have to find out a lot more about the vendor specific interface that is provided, and then have some serious work to do to access that from Perl.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

In reply to Re^3: USB module by GrandFather
in thread USB module by boblikeperl

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