Quoting Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Can USB ports in a LINUX machine be connected to any device having USB > > interface ???? Example can any mobile phone having USB port be interfaced > > with Linux Machine ? > > Yes, but you need a device-specific driver.
The driver is needed only if you want the device to work :-) The poster did not ask that much :-) Generally, any USB device (that is an -device-, not a host) can be connected to a Linux box, exactly as it can be connected to a Windows box. Actually, many devices do not need a special driver. They belong to a "class" - which is a common standard for all such devices. For example, mice and keyboards belong to a HID class, and the driver for this class is already available in Linux. Note that one host port connects to one device (the poster talked about plural "ports". USB is one-to-one connection, and hubs serve as splitters. Dmitri -- "I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than first programs in any other language (maybe except for FORTRAN, but then I suspect all FORTRAN programs look like `firsts')" (By Olaf Kirch)
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