Re USB keyboard [LWN.net]

Re USB keyboard

Posted Jun 8, 2005 16:54 UTC (Wed) by HalfMoon (guest, #3211)
In reply to: An Interview with Dr. Ari Jaaksi of Nokia (Linux Journal) by tao
Parent article: An Interview with Dr. Ari Jaaksi of Nokia (Linux Journal)

Actually I'm told that a lot of the Nokia developers do hook up a USB keyboard (or hub, or disk drive) to that device port. Thing is since the device has a Mini-B port (I'm assuming!) you wouldn't be able to use a standard cable ... or even a standard kernel setup. The OMAP chip certainly includes an OHCI controller, which can be used on any of the ports that the peripheral controller can be hooked up to.

I was kind of hoping this device would ship with a USB-OTG connector ... with a Mini-AB port and the right transceiver driving it, that port would work in either peripheral or host modes depending on what was hooked up to it. Evidently that's not an option for this first model, but I'll hope for a product revision to change the transceiver and connector.

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Re USB keyboard

Posted Jun 8, 2005 17:41 UTC (Wed) by thompsot (guest, #12368) [Link]

Sounds like a USB-OTG interface would solve printing needs as well...

Re USB keyboard

Posted Jun 9, 2005 11:28 UTC (Thu) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

Yes, a lot of us use it in the host-mode, but we use modified hubs to drive the whole shebang. Not really a workable solution when walking around with your N770 =)