#ELAN SMART PAD DRIVER WINDOWS 7 INSTALL#

#ELAN SMART PAD DRIVER WINDOWS 7 INSTALL#

Easiest way is to install Windows in a VM, pass the USB device through to the VM, load the driver there, and log all of the USB traffic on your host machine. If there's no OSS driver, reverse engineer the Windows one. I'd recommend trying to write a user space USB driver first, and porting it to the kernel when you're happy with the messages you're getting. Not straightforward, expect this to take you quite some time if it's your first driver. If there's an open source Linux or BSD driver, you can probably work it out from that source and translate it into an IOKit kext for OSX. If it doesn't report as a HID device, you'll need to figure out its hardware interface in detail. (Read up on USB device configurations if this doesn't ring a bell.) Note that its default configuration may not be the only one, and if there are multiple device configurations, the default one likely isn't the most fully featured one. You'll likely find it attached to a USB bus, but a key question is what drivers are already matched on it. Easiest way to find out is to download the Hardware IO Tools from Apple's developer website, or the open source IOJones, and look for the device in the service tree. It's most likely a USB HID device, although if not, it's going to be more work, as you'll need to turn the messages the device sends into HID reports one way or another. Depends on what you already know/have experience with, and how much time and persistence you'd like to invest in it, and of course, the awkwardness of the hardware itself, as to whether it'll be worth it.Дetermine type of hardware interface.

Elan smart pad driver windows 7