[maemo-developers] Switching N810 to USB host mode?

[From: Andrew Daviel]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Charles Werbick wrote:

> If you can get into host mode from peripheral mode (i.e.- while
> plugged in as a USB HD) but not from scratch or boot up,then we're in
> the same boat.

If I wasn't confused before, I am now ...

If I connect an unpowered memory stick, power up the tablet and
select host mode by doing 
"echo host > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode", it works.

If I connect my MP3 player, which uses an AAA battery, it works too.
If I connect my daughter's, which wants to recharge off USB, it starts 
then gives up as I presume it draws too much current..
If I connect a powered hub, I can read her player.

However, if I power down the tablet, then power it up and connect the 
powered hub, I cannot read anything. If I then connect the memory stick 
directly to the tablet, I can get it in host mode and read the stick, 
then connect the hub instead and read that, too.

I don't need to connect the tablet in peripheral mode to a PC. I just 
need to connect the memory stick.

This is not sufficiently annoying for me to want to re-flash the system
right now.

Andrew