[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] external usb devices

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 11:17 +0300, ext Karoliina T. Salminen wrote:
> ext Steffen Vogel wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I’m new here. I think it’s possible to connect a external usb-hdd to a 
> > 770. It would be very useful for playing mp3s and watching videos.
> >
> > You could use a webcam or a keyboard.
> >
> There would be plenty of use for the usb host functionality. Ed 
> mentioned something
> about it, Ed, does it now work (automatically) without enabling it with 
> the flasher or is the
> situation still that it used to be?
Kernel can't work with both modes simultaneously, I think. Production
mode is peripheral, so it should be switched to usb host mode if you
want to use device in this mode.
There are two ways of swithing device into usb host mode for the moment:
using flasher and using sysfs interface manually from the shell.


-- 
Ed