Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

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?

I'm very unclear how this could be achieved without drivers.

The Linux-based Openmoko Freerunner mobile phone can use its USB port  
as either mass-storage or networking (appearing to the host as a USB  
ethernet adaptor) but I believe this is facilitated by the hardware,  
and different kernel modules need to be loaded for each function.

Stroller.