From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761315AbYDCT5V (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:57:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756960AbYDCT5G (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:57:06 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:48100 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756947AbYDCT5F (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:57:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Xavier Bestel cc: Alan Stern , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ASUS ScreenDuo In-Reply-To: <1207251545.24007.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Message-ID: References: <1207251545.24007.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > 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. for future use, what was it that made everyone decide that this is going to show up as a storage device? with a screen and buttons I would have guessed a HID of some sort. David Lang