Today in Windows hardware support is a joke:
A cheap barcode scanner wand barely as expensive as a cheap wired mouse.
Unix:
It just works! Literally plug and play.
Windows 10:
After half a minute, it said it just works, but "031225044071" is not a valid UPC for anything, let alone a router, and "E2>J1>53X>>1" is not a valid MAC address.
Those are consistent misreads on Windows, not random garbage, & I swapped it back to Unix to make sure the wand didn't break itself. Nope, it's just Windows.
BTW, barcode wands not only come with manuals more complete than a very expensive PC's manual, but they *must* come with decent manuals.
The wand can be a keyboard or a serial port to the PC, user's choice. So how do you configure the wand? You scan bar codes printed in the manual for the settings you want to configure.
@thekayfox I don't follow. The only ones I could get on the cheap are all USB.
@arielmt I wish they made USB versions.