Re: usb network dongle (was Re: dhcp on usb0)

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Andros
On 12/7/07, Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 07 December 2007, Jay Vaughan wrote: > > > The USB connector on the Neo can be switched from client to host > > > mode, but > > > last I heard (some time ago now) the code to do the switching > > > hadn't been > > > implemented. > > >

Re: usb network dongle (was Re: dhcp on usb0)

2007-12-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 07 December 2007, Jay Vaughan wrote: > > The USB connector on the Neo can be switched from client to host > > mode, but > > last I heard (some time ago now) the code to do the switching > > hadn't been > > implemented. > > Thats very interesting - if anyone has any technical details on ho

Re: usb network dongle (was Re: dhcp on usb0)

2007-12-07 Thread Jay Vaughan
The USB connector on the Neo can be switched from client to host mode, but last I heard (some time ago now) the code to do the switching hadn't been implemented. Thats very interesting - if anyone has any technical details on how this works I'd like to hear about it because there are USB d

Re: usb network dongle (was Re: dhcp on usb0)

2007-12-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jay Vaughan writes: > >The question I have about this is how do we connect USB devices to >the neo? Isn't it so that the USB Host port is only on the debug >board? If so, thats mighty fidgety to plug in and get set up with a >USB hub and so .. I must confess I have cursed at the ribbon cabl

Re: usb network dongle (was Re: dhcp on usb0)

2007-12-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 07 December 2007, Jay Vaughan wrote: > > this is kind of going off at a tangent, but are there any decent usb > > network interfaces with linux drivers included in OM? personally, i > > would rather connect my neo direct to the router in my house than have > > to boot a computer as well,

Re: usb network dongle (was Re: dhcp on usb0)

2007-12-07 Thread Jay Vaughan
this is kind of going off at a tangent, but are there any decent usb network interfaces with linux drivers included in OM? personally, i would rather connect my neo direct to the router in my house than have to boot a computer as well, whenever i want to update packages. or are there other reasons

Re: usb network dongle (was Re: dhcp on usb0)

2007-12-06 Thread Rod Whitby
Robin Paulson wrote: > this is kind of going off at a tangent, but are there any decent usb > network interfaces with linux drivers included in OM? personally, i > would rather connect my neo direct to the router in my house than have > to boot a computer as well, whenever i want to update packages

usb network dongle (was Re: dhcp on usb0)

2007-12-06 Thread Robin Paulson
On 07/12/2007, Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I'd like it to do this automatically when plug the usb cable in, > and haven't been able to find a way to get that to happen. I didn't > have any luck with either > > auto usb0 > allow-hotplug usb0 > > in /etc/network/interfaces > > In b