If I understand correctly, it just wraps an existing Linux driver in a container. You can hardly call that writing a driver.
Would calling it a "driver adapter" fit more accurately .. ?
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
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Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the repository link? I think it would be fascinating to have a corpus of "hacked" solutions like this. Can't tell you how many times a couch co-op game night got sabotaged by some piece of hardware failing to communicate with another.
The creatively-named https://github.com/Netruk44/wolverine-v3-pro-linux The "linux" support is pretty narrow (because I made this for myself). It's restricted to SteamOS. But I'm sure it could be ported easily, the repository contains documentation about the important parts from reverse engineering the firmware.
Thank you!
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#53Update: I saw a bunch of comments on the post asking how I got Claude to do this
I usually answer saying there's not really a hack for it, you just work with it, convey thoughts decently and try out things with educated guesses until it sticks with these projects.
But I actually went ahead and exported the chat in a readable format for anyone curious enough to go through :) https://cdn.kuber.studio/chat/hp-laser-1008a-driver
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#54Claude did not write any macOS driver. It uses the HP Linux driver inside docker. Here is prior art from 2017. In contrast to the AI gibberish, one can understand it:
https://www.alecburton.co.uk/2017/printing-from-a-docker-con...
There are many such tutorials and Claude just plagiarized as usual.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#55I've been taking Windows only apps from github and having Claude rewrite them for Linux. It's been awesome.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#56If I understand correctly, it just wraps an existing Linux driver in a container. You can hardly call that writing a driver.
Would calling it a "driver adapter" fit more accurately .. ?
I don't think so, no. It does not appear to be functioning as an OSX device driver. It's just hosting a network print server in docker.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think, from a business perspective, they just don't see us at all. We're such a small, inconsequential part of the market that building open, free hardware with code that we can update, change, or alter for our needs is just.. not part of their business use-case.
I hope that with AI, this becomes a far more compelling selling point that consumers demand.
I think right now AI is mostly providing a much better experience for using a computer for people that already have deep knowledge of how to use a computer. For example, no matter how many times I've tried to explain how to use it, my wife is just happy to keep plugging away at what she does without leveraging AI for automating away the repetitive parts of her work. I think she's a much more real-world use-case than I am. I like to tinker. She just wants to do what she does.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#58The test printout mentions Samsung ML2010 which had a Mac osx driver (had a Ml2020 till a couple of weeks ago).. by the picture of the printer it seems they had an identical plastic mold..they most likely came from the same oem (xerox).. but still nice from Claude to figure it out..
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#59Claude did not write any macOS driver. It uses the HP Linux driver inside docker. Here is prior art from 2017. In contrast to the AI gibberish, one can understand it: https://www.alecburton.co.uk/2017/printing-from-a-docker-con... There are many such tutorials and Claude just plagiarized as usual.
Something similar can be done on freebsd to use the much faster wireless drivers in Linux by passing the PCI device to a VM.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#60Claude did not write any macOS driver. It uses the HP Linux driver inside docker. Here is prior art from 2017. In contrast to the AI gibberish, one can understand it: https://www.alecburton.co.uk/2017/printing-from-a-docker-con... There are many such tutorials and Claude just plagiarized as usual.
On the bright side, I hope LLMs erode IP copyright so much we can have a cultural renaissance. China is always put as a horrible piracy heaven, but it is precisely their disregard of IP that got them where they are today. The exhorbitant copyright length of today is a net loss to society.