maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - N900 will not allow USB OTG!

	allnameswereout	2009-09-22 , 03:31
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Originally Posted by thecursedfly

(sorry for answering like 3 pages after your post)You seem to continue with the same mistake: this one is just a USB hub with incorporated bluetooth dongle and card reader

That is the same as:

[quotte]N900 -> [bluetooth] -> (selfpowered) Bluetooth Hub with female USB port -> USB flash drive (or any other USB slave device)[/quote]

find a solution to the USB host thingie, and in a couple of months max, a N900 will be mine... ^^
otherwise, time will tell.

See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=195 & its parents. This device supports USB host mode.

But frankly.. I think you (and some other folks) are not doing your home work. Because if it does not matter how much power the device draws (it uses an adapter anyway) then we're quickly done, and welcome to embedded world of Linux.

For example a Soekris 5501 can have SATA or PATA (and has CF too). You'd have internal storage and use N900 to connect to it. It doesn't have PCMCIA though (but some other versions do). It has a USB port and could use host most (but not charge device over USB). It has MiniPCI and MiniPCI Express too. It could run *NIX or whatever you want...

http://www.metrix.net/pcmcia-to-usb-...4521-p-69.html

or this

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/N...eamScreen-100/

or a settopbox (I bet my Philips DVR would work. Not sure it has USB, have to check.)

or the predecessor of this

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Linutop-3/

or this HDD enclosure with USB OTG (has even on-board battery?!)

http://www.acesuppliers.com/Supplier...oom_12470.html

And thats found with 5 min searching, and they're a bit overkill, so I'm sure you can do much better.

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