I am installing Tinycore on some 16 AMD K6 based embedded systems where I work.
I am using a USB barcode scanner that is running in keyboard emulation mode. So that when you scan, it 'types' the decoded text of the barcode into the application with focus.
When running tinycore, I scan and the barcode scanner does its beep to confirm that it read the barcode but never types out it's text. What's worse, I have been running into about 70% chance of crashing the scanner so badly that it has to be hard reset. Usually one or two tries will crash it.
We have been using our scanners on Debian systems and they have been performing just fine. This problem exists only in Tinycore whether I am using the embedded system or my desktop machine. The scanner works perfectly fine at the grub command line, but if I start scanning away as fast as I can during booting, it crashes about one third through the boot process.
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The embedded system runs from a Compact Flash card that appears as a /dev/hdx type of device, I installed Tinycore on it from the CD image using a 80486 emulation (qemu).
The Compact Flash card is attached to the system with a Syba IDE to CF adapter which I think is a way cool device that deserves greater attention