linux-kernel - Re: ASUS ScreenDuo

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Message-Id: <1207251545.24007.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv>
Date:	Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:39:05 +0200
From:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ASUS ScreenDuo


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


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