[WORKS] Re: usb receptables from old motherboard => gender changer => usb host cable?

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Wed Aug 6 10:20:16 CEST 2008


Sven Klomp <sven at klomp.de> writes:
> Great, it's a handy solution.
> If I connect 5V from external, I can charge the Neo? Can I break something I 

Probably. Isn't the "Three-Headed Cable" chapter instructing you to do
essentially the same thing? It's a shame that no motherboard has a set
of _three_ USB receptables in a compact package :-)

> tell the Neo to provide 5V (echo "1" 
>> /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode) and add external power 
> supply?

That I do not know.




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