Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to use one-wire devices such as my iButton via Linux and USB. It's one of those cases where Windows works fine, but is annoying and powerless.

Does anybody know anything about doing this? I've tried lots of googling, found a couple of hopeful things, but when I tried to install the OWFS software that said it was for iButtons, it failed at the make install step, and that was the best hope I'd found. There is a post here on Linuxquestions already that asks a similar question, but it didn't get any answers (not even one).

It seems like these ought to be very simple things to make work, but I can't figure them out. Does anybody have any brilliant ideas on where to get started? I can't even figure out how to know if the little USB device is connected or not. It's mighty frustrating indeed.

Thanks in advance.

And I'm still trying to figure this out when I want to get my iButton to work. It should not be this hard.

Not sure if this will help
http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibu...re/wirekit.cfm

The output of the dmesg and or lsusb commands will show if the device is recognized.

Thanks for that link. I don't think it will help though. I tried to get that to work already, and I couldn't discern between what I had to do, what was helping, and what was to accomplish things I didn't want.

From what I can tell, the only people to get these things to work in Linux are the people that have to for commercial purposes, and it seems that they generally write their own code to make that work.

I'd be delighted to hear otherwise though.