From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MzIPN-0004l4-5f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:09:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 156E8E0798; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF684E0798 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:09:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MzIPK-0000QY-EW for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:09:54 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:09:51 +0200 id 00010499.4ADA4EBF.00001BD4 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:09:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.29-tuxonice-r3_noscale; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) References: <200910061222.56519.wonko@wonkology.org> <200910161358.20103.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Length: 3250 X-UID: 397 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910180109.50004.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: ed340399-3ec7-4c60-aa9a-829b1729267b X-Archives-Hash: 82b54edb23e700d14a57a2ea6a213be0 Stroller has a cool idea: > On 16 Oct 2009, at 12:58, Alex Schuster wrote: [I want a Linux PC to act as USB mass storage device] > The hack that springs to mind is to see if you can pick up an Openmoko > Freerunner with a broken screen. I'd guess you might be able to pick > one up for as little as $50 or so. It needs no SIM - you just connect > it to your office wifi instead, configure it to act as a mass storage > device and share the appropriate directory by Samba or NFS or whatever. > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Using_the_Neo_as_an_USB_Mass_storage_device Hey, this is a great idea! I'd never have thought about this. > Configuring the device to boot up and automagically load the mass > storage device kernel module - instead of the USB networking one, > which is default - could be a bit tricky with a broken screen. But I > doubt if you want to spend $200 on this, and I think that's about the > going rate on a brand new Freerunner. Well, even $200 might be okay. I need this for a commercial project anyway, and I guess the customer would be happy not to have to move around USB sticks. But even better, I guess already have such a thing! My girl-friend got one a year ago, but was not happy with it. I just uses too much energy, has to be recharged every day. And there is some bug, when the battery is completely dead, it cannot be recharged - the moko needs another battery to start, then it can be exchanged with the dead one and recharged. Maybe there is s newer software, she hasn't looked for that for a while. And I thought the project is about dead anyway, but that may also be completely wrong. Anyway, the device would be already here, so I can play around with it. > I do feel this is kinda a clumsy suggestion, to use a relatively > expensive mobile phone - and such little of its functionality - for > such an ostensibly-simple task. Clumsy, but also geeky :) I like it. > There must be other Linux-based > devices which will pretend to be mass storage devices, and I wouldn't > be at all surprised if some of them were quite cheap and readily > available. But I have no idea what they might be. There are many Linux-based handhelds or MP3 players, but I did not find such thing as a PCI card with USB peripheral hardware. At least now I know that an normal PC just cannot be a peripheral, its USB controller can work in host mode only. Thanks again! Wonko