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 1MveqO-0008Q2-4D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:18:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C230E0976; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f190.google.com (mail-yw0-f190.google.com [209.85.211.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59355E0976 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh28 with SMTP id 28so5534700ywh.16 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:18:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=ZymHwBzT2Yx7lB/j6IcLFoB5WR/mBWW3+hDuGAUnlJM=; b=abNijdnOdsiB7pN66MB0DFIsgdcRZA01VovSG8VUVJXzzJiE1uGbr6aLiC44BmUC8P PbCjBZE6xYlThWVkzfu4Va/KLHtrcoz8X9e7BPSPVH/E5O3XIPwPxStjd+4qf74ZKuwd uY8CtErDQJX9p+bTxZU1PJi9MLKqMYXVtLLkg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=bsYGrgaEctsaRcFS3+Z8dLfTcuizcG1fvlCVs+GUimFRre3Sgw7vSpdYqI+TtthZJY bcWyn4F5Xy0+EOuQX2BOxtC4Z3az2Cbdes9OIaSigEA/tP5159vxaGJpTRIYtT9ONMuV XJhT9z1VCpBi9pR/OSVyp5hUee7l4kRHsfgsg= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.210.3 with SMTP id i3mr1025856ybg.18.1254953925955; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:18:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9211DC3F-4C1E-4CFD-9215-0CDCED444378@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <200910061222.56519.wonko@wonkology.org> <200910071938.28001.wonko@wonkology.org> <726C7F33-F238-41A5-906D-8DD98E3D6313@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200910072308.08379.wonko@wonkology.org> <9211DC3F-4C1E-4CFD-9215-0CDCED444378@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:18:45 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ed8c1c6bc588a884 Message-ID: <58965d8a0910071518i3e497db2w3e9fec130fe4119e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: b873f5da-f007-4432-8bb3-cec43c120a09 X-Archives-Hash: d43398218909ee20ba3f6fe08ebc09d3 On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 7 Oct 2009, at 22:08, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Stroller writes: >> >>> On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: >>>> >>>> Rohit writes: >>>>> >>>>> I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make >>>>> drives of one machine available to the other. >>>>> It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. >>>> >>>> I didn't find it there, but now that I looked for such a thing I >>>> think I found a similar one. Thanks! Linux is not being mentioned, but >>>> at least it says there are no drivers needed. I wonder how it would be >>>> possible that two system use the system at the same time. >>>> As the cable is cheap, I think I'll just get one and try it. >>> >>> Do you have a link for this, please? >> >> Only in German: >> http://www.pearl.de/a-PE187-1414.shtml?query=USB data link >> >> It says there is no driver or software installation necessary. When >> connected, a data transfer program will open automatically. Does this mean >> there is some program that is executed automatically when connecting, or >> is >> this just the usual Windows feature that opens a new drive and shows its >> contents? >> >>> I'm very unclear how this could be achieved without drivers. >> >> Me too, after some thinking I believe this will not be what I need. How >> would the cable know the location where to store data it receives from the >> other client? > > I'm not able to answer any of your questions, but I've seen similar products > advertised before which were clearly 2 USB network adaptors - like this > - in a single cable. In fact, > looking up that example I found the same store explicitly selling exactly as > I describe: . > > In this case the "no drivers needed" would suggest to me that the drivers > are installed by default under XP. And also "no drivers needed" does not mean "no software needed" :) I googled around and seems most common with these cables is a program called PC-Linq. This page has a link to download (maybe it works in WINE?) and a screenshot: http://www.georgedillon.com/freeware/pclinq.shtml