Simple plain nothing will happen. Please! Could you be bothered to read a little part (like first 10 posts) of the various threads about hostmode, like e.g.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31921
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...451#post575451
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...950#post588950
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...367#post685367
http://talk.maemo.org/search.php?searchid=9868345

is there a list of wireless usb cards that can be connected to n900 wia h-e-n,that have drivers to, and ,can drivers for 8187 for n810 work on n900 ,
i have Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9170 usb ,but i canot find driver ,so i like to bay another one that can work with h-e-n and have already working drivers
thanks for any help

maybe a bit off the current momentum, but look what just arrived from honkkong:



activate jealous mode.

After 24 days waiting for my host cable to turn up from china i got impatient and whipped out the iron last night.

i used this blog post for instructions on how to make it, pretty simple especially if the two cables you chop use the same standard color code. making your own usb host cable

I used a usb a extension female end and a micro usb male from another cable, then just bridged the GND on the micro end to the 5th unused contact on the same end.

This is what i ended up with:

Building


Testing


Using

ended up soldering wire-to-wire beacuse the contacts on the micro USB connector i liberated were tiny, and my soldering iron is pretty big, please excuse the messy soldering and tape, ran out of elec tape and no heatshink either so ive had to use sticky tape

Still got it working with Corsair flash Voyager, ATV dual channel USB thumb and fujitsu kb, microsoft intellimouse and wireless logitech performance MX all work a charm too with a little help from mouse support package

Great work, ty ty ty

EDIT: fixed images .. for now, im inbetween image hosts

Some support the idea ?????

plug in to N900 the Y-cable with player attached and without power supply. Plug powered supply to Y-cable, immediately prior to pressing "VBoost on" in h-e-n, not earlier, not after pressing button.
VBUS 5V at wrong moment will mess hostmode speed setting, applying too late will trip the 200mA electronic "fuse" in N900 vbooster. So 1st select speed in h-e-n GUI, 2nd plug in the external power source, 3rd press "VBoost on" - do 2. and 3. during a few seconds timespan (rule of thumb: <5s) [edit] right now that's irrelevant, this might change in future versions

HTH
/j

Will that allow charging of the N900 while using USB host mode?

This was a reply to the post above, about "What am I doing wrong???!!???"

For charging hostmode see hostmode while charging post

/j

you might be interested in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=56932 "Printing with N900"

/j

Is there any usb to RS-232 adapters which work easily with kernel-power?