It looks like it is configued to offer a network interface. If you can someone how on to it you could export its filesystem via NFS or samba.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Thorbj�rn Ravn Andersen wrote: > I bought a Asus WL500g network router the other day which is > Linuxbased, so I would like to play with it. > > Apparently it supports having a USB-disk/key connected to use as a > file system, and I got the idea that I might be able to use the > host-port provided by the motherboard in my computer instead. > > The motherboard is a MSI 6321 and the port is reported with > > T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 > D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 > P: Vendor=05e3 ProdID=0502 Rev= 1.80 > S: Product=USB Host To Host Bridge > C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr= 8mA > I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbnet > E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms > E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms > E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=16ms > > Apparently the only lines relevant to this in dmesg are > > usb0: register usbnet at usb-0000:00:07.3-2, Genesys GeneLink > usbcore: registered new driver usbnet > > I tried searching this mailing list for genelink and genesys but > apparently I do not know enough yet to spot the information I need. > > Is there somebody who knows what exactly this device is (for further > studying) and whether I may be able to trick it to act as a mass > storage device instead and use the gadget stuff to serve files to my > router? > > Thanks in advance - I would appreciate getting this to work. > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
