External wired small USB keyboard

Robin Paulson robin.paulson at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 01:46:11 CEST 2008


2008/10/26 Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net>:
> On power drawing from an USB hub in a keyboard, I have the following
> question. Is it possible to connect at the same time:
> - USB power charger or network over USB with your desktop/laptop (does
> this also charge a little bit the Neo?)
> - external USB keyboard
> - perhaps one other USB device (low power consumption, almost passive)
>
> Is this feesable with some sort of HUB combination?

yes, you need a powered USB hub, and may need to do some
soldering/re-building to get things going:

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_host#Providing_power_to_connected_USB_devices_while_in_host_mode

for more info




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