Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On 6 Sep 2010, at 6:55 pm, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

> it works for all usb disks i've tried but has never worked for
> Bluetooth devices.

well if it works for all usb disks it's worth my while getting one,  
not a sheevaplug as such, rather a seagate freeagent go dockstar  
which is currently €25 from atelco.de or $40 direct from seagate.  
aiju tells me it has the same soc.

i'd be happy if usb audio works too, but it's not important.

> the last time i looked, i was left with a guess
> that the driver needed to support some unholy handshake with the
> built-in "Transaction Translator"; not sure if that's really the
> problem.  Geoff and Nemo worked on disabling various caches which
> fixed most earlier issues.

what the heck is a "transaction translator"? it sound evil. :D

>
> -Skip
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>> On Mon Sep  6 13:03:54 EDT 2010, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Nemo <nemo.mbox@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Iirc, there's still work to be done to get them working fully  
>>>> and  properly. But i may be mistaken.
>>>> I remember I had to add support for kbin and mousein, as Erik  
>>>> points out.
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, here is the kind of hackathon type of think it might be fun to
>>> do at IWP9. Get the right people in the room, work for 24 hours and
>>> get it right, either that or start hallucinating that we got it  
>>> right
>>
>> i like the idea.  unfortunately, iirc this problem hangs on  
>> specifications
>> which we don't have.  so perhaps it would be better to attack a  
>> problem
>> were we're not just guessing.

ron, you're making me wish i could go to iwp9, :) but erik's right.

>>
>> - erik
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