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 1MLaTL-0006uG-95 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:21:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CF8FE0774; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54780E0774 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KM1005EQRGG81W0@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:21:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:21:52 -0400 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device In-reply-to: <5C6B8D8B-7FC6-4A91-BAE3-5B3F1BDB3E95@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4A49E740.4060801@optonline.net> 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 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 References: <4A48AA2B.7010703@optonline.net> <4A48B942.3060007@optonline.net> <5C6B8D8B-7FC6-4A91-BAE3-5B3F1BDB3E95@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090628) X-Archives-Salt: d9e50c51-383c-42d0-97b3-6afdd876b4d2 X-Archives-Hash: f01b75aff18418140f9640e39ca2af9e Stroller wrote: > > On 29 Jun 2009, at 13:53, dhk wrote: >>>> ... >>>> What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? >>> >>> Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That >>> appears to be what you're expecting, but I don't find that clear at all. >>> >> >> No, I'm not sure how the device should appear. However, I thought it >> should look like any other disk or usb stick since it currently has a >> Microsoft CE on it, which I want to change to Gentoo. > > I don't think that's a reasonable conclusion _at all_. > > If the scanner plugs into a Windows PC and appears as a disk drive then, > sure, I'd expect to be able to treat it the same under Linux. But, > assuming it plugs into a Windows PC at all, it's more likely that the > manufacturer's software (which you'll need on the PC anyway, to handle > barcode & stock-control data?) talks to it over in some > proprietary-over-serial format. > > Finally, can you even install Linux on this scanner? Chances are its > processor is ARM - Linux will run on that architecture, but you won't be > able to chroot in from your x86 box & install GRUB. > > Chances are that this scanner is some kind of rebadged HP iPaq or > something, onto which Linux has been / can be cludged onto, but you seem > to be making a lot of assumptions ahead of time. > > Stroller. > > > I done have a Windows box so I don't know how it looks on that. However, I already build the arm cross compiler and have a kernel to install on it, the only thing is I don't know how to reach it. Now I just want to know how to get the kernel to the device. This may be a bigger project than I thought. Thanks.