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I have a Motorola Symbol LS1203 barcode scanner. It works fine under Debian 5, but it does not work under Debian 6 Stable or Debian 6 Testing (Wheezy). When I say "it does not work" I mean it will not scan a barcode at all. It will scan barcodes under Debian 5.

lsusb sees it:

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 05e0:1200 Symbol Technologies Bar Code Scanner

dmesg sees it:

[  281.927855] generic-usb 0003:05E0:1200.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [\xffffffef\xffffffbe\xffffffa9\xffffffbe\xffffffa9Symbol Technologies, Inc, 2002 Symbol Bar Code Scanner] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.1/input0

xinput list:

 ↳ ﾩSymbol Technologies, Inc, 2002 Symbol Bar Code Scanner  id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]rnel

uname -a:

Linux laptop 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 27 16:21:11 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any idea on what I can do to make this thing scan barcodes like it did when we used Debian 5? Thanks!

Complete output of xinput list:

xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master     pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer            id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                    id=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus                                 id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button                              id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_FHD              id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device              id=15   [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                          id=16   [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ ﾩSymbol Technologies, Inc, 2002 Symbol Bar Code Scanner   id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
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I'd suggest posting the complete output of xinput list for both systems as well as the relevant lines from dmesg for both. – MikeyB Mar 7 '12 at 22:20
I no longer have access to the Debian 5 system. I'll post xinput list tomorrow, but the above line is directly from that and the only line that shows the barcode scanner. – user1200129 Mar 7 '12 at 23:22
Don't must barcode scanners just show up as a HID device and send the output just as if it was keyboard input? – Zoredache Mar 7 '12 at 23:41
Yes, they do. This one did that on Debian 5. Seems to be something different in the newer kernel. – user1200129 Mar 7 '12 at 23:50

closed as off topic by MikeyB, ewwhite, SvW, Zoredache, WesleyDavid Mar 8 '12 at 3:40

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