Usb foot pedal driver

I have a sparc machine running solaris 10 and 2 Olympus usb foot pedals. The usb foot pedal models are RS24 and RS26. There are no Solaris drviers for the devices. I tried the detection tool on an XP Pro machine since I do not have an x86 machine. The tool does not detect the pedal even with Windows drivers installed.
I have read that other brands of foot pedals do not support Linux/Unix but should be compatible with their built in drivers. So I tried assigning a foot pedal to the hid driver. Nothing would happen when I press a pedal or cat the files in /dev/usb/7b4.202.
Then I tried assigning the foot pedal to a usb mouse driver from a site recommended by Sun. The driver would install but fail to attach. Still nothing would happen however there would be weird output when I cat the /dev/usb/7b4/202 files.
I know that foot pedals are used for audio and dictation so I would have to test them against that software. However my company would basically like to see changes in the state of the foot pedals to use them in their own software. I have no expereince in coding drivers so feedback with non-coding solutions would be appreciated.

Hello again.
rem_drv usb_midI would not have done that. This may have influenced your USB configuration in a very bad way. Maybe now some USB devices will not be working.
add_drv -i '"usb7b4,202"' usb_midThe "usb_mid" driver is needed for devices that are handled by multiple drivers (e.g. a keyboard/mouse combination with only one USB plug is handled by the keyboard driver and by the mouse driver the same time). It cannot be used "stand alone" but it requires another driver.
I would try the following thing:
add_drv ugenIf Solaris says the driver is already installed it is OK. If Solaris says the driver cannot be found you have the "USBA 0.9" environment (see previous answer) - do not try to get your pedals working.
Next you must do is to replace the following line in /etc/driver_aliases:usb_mid "usb7b4,202"by the following line:ugen "usb7b4,202"then reboot the system; maybe the following two commands can be used to make the device work without rebooting:update_drv usb_mid
update_drv ugenNow you should get the directory "/dev/usb/7b4.202". Under Solaris 9 this directory is not created automatically but only the link destinations in "/devices/..." are created.
Your next problem is how to work with the files in this directory. It is not as easy as simply opening "/dev/mouse" and reading some data. You'll have to send USB configuration commands etc.
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