From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761665AbYDCTpj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:45:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763224AbYDCTjQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:39:16 -0400 Received: from smtp21.orange.fr ([80.12.242.47]:60762 "EHLO smtp21.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763093AbYDCTjO (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:39:14 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20080403193912938.E50BF1C000AC@mwinf2108.orange.fr Subject: Re: ASUS ScreenDuo From: Xavier Bestel To: Alan Stern Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:39:05 +0200 Message-Id: <1207251545.24007.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On jeu, 2008-04-03 at 15:07 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > On jeu, 2008-04-03 at 11:37 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have an ASUS motherboard with an USB gadget, the ASUS ScreenDUO. It's > > > > an independant little lcd screen with buttons, apparently it runs some > > > > kind of OS because it can access the net (e.g. to retrieve RSS) even > > > > when the computer is off - I guess they mean soft-off. > > > > > > > > Well, all that is theory because it's under Vista, which I don't have. > > > > Under Linux the ScreenDUO is kind-of recognized: it says it's a mass > > > > storage device, but I can't mount it (the kernel says it's bound to sdc, > > > > but sdc doesn't exist). > > > > I'd like to access it. Does anyone know how that thing works ? > > > > > > What does usbmon show when you modprobe usb-storage? (The instructions > > > for usbmon are in the kernel source file Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt.) > > ... > > The ScreenDUO is reporting that no medium is present. Maybe it needs > you to insert some sort of flash memory card before it will work as a > mass-storage device. Ah. Apparently it just waits for some driver from the Windows side (no way to insert anything in there). I guess it'll just be another useless piece of electronics at home. Thanks, Xav