making a USB Host Mode program to switch between USB Client, USB OnTheGo, and USB Host.
Installation: Now that it's added to the repositories, it's a one-click install and worked fine for me. The hardware requirement is the included USB cable with the Internet Tablet and a "Female to Female" USB adapter. I got one at Fry's Electronics for $4.
The application is simple: Three buttons on the bottom allow you to select host mode, OTG mode, and (the default) Peripheral mode. OTG mode is for cameras and related devices supporting that protocol. Peripheral mode turns your tablet into a card reader to look at the internal and card storage. Host mode allows other devices (such as flash drives and keyboards) to be connected.
I tested it with a variety of devices:
USB Flash Drive - Success
USB Hard Drive - Limited success: External drives must be both fully powered externally (not just through one of those USB power splitters) and must not be formatted with NTFS. I tested an ext2 filesystem and a FAT32 filesystem and they worked fine.
USB DVD-ROM - The device recognized, but the filesystem did not.
USB keyboard - Worked fine.
USB Mouse - Was recognized but did nothing.
When an error like the above appears, it means the filesystem is not recognized. To save space and speed, the N810's kernel was compiled with only a few types of file system supported.
Source: http://tabletblog.com
Installation: Now that it's added to the repositories, it's a one-click install and worked fine for me. The hardware requirement is the included USB cable with the Internet Tablet and a "Female to Female" USB adapter. I got one at Fry's Electronics for $4.
The application is simple: Three buttons on the bottom allow you to select host mode, OTG mode, and (the default) Peripheral mode. OTG mode is for cameras and related devices supporting that protocol. Peripheral mode turns your tablet into a card reader to look at the internal and card storage. Host mode allows other devices (such as flash drives and keyboards) to be connected.
I tested it with a variety of devices:
USB Flash Drive - Success
USB Hard Drive - Limited success: External drives must be both fully powered externally (not just through one of those USB power splitters) and must not be formatted with NTFS. I tested an ext2 filesystem and a FAT32 filesystem and they worked fine.
USB DVD-ROM - The device recognized, but the filesystem did not.
USB keyboard - Worked fine.
USB Mouse - Was recognized but did nothing.
When an error like the above appears, it means the filesystem is not recognized. To save space and speed, the N810's kernel was compiled with only a few types of file system supported.
Source: http://tabletblog.com