using the openmoko neo101 in mass storage mode

Lorn Potter lpotter at trolltech.com
Fri May 30 21:31:14 CEST 2008


Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
> manoj kumar wrote:
>> Can the openmoko mobile be used as a mass storage device, or can it be 
>> networked with windows???
> 
> Well, from a technical point of view I agree that making the Neo to show 
> itself as a mass storage device it's bad, but I honestly think that this 
> could be very useful.

How is that bad? It is the way it is supposed to work, otherwise the 
chip would not have both capabilities..


> For example, you're using a PC that you can't control totally and you've 
> not the USB-networking windows drivers with you (well, I generally don't 
> keep with me these things when traveling, for example :P) but you'd 
> like/need to load some data in your Freerunner.
> 
> How could you do that? I figure that the mass-storage way could be the 
> only solution to this. Am I wrong?
> 


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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
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