USB hub

Joachim Ott jo.omsl at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 8 13:24:16 CEST 2009


2009/4/7 Seth Rothenberg <seth at pachai.net>:
>>> Is there a USB hub that is recognized by Freerunner?
>>> I think the one I have is not recognized by FR or Ubuntu.
>
>> FR is a piece of hardware, ubuntu is software, are you running ubuntu
>> on freerunner or ubuntu on PC? If your usb hub does not work with your
>> PC/ubuntu then probably it does not work with freerunner either.
>
> That's right.   A USB hub is hardware.
> Many types of hardware require a driver on the host.
> Many OS' have drivers that support various USB devices.
>
> This hub does not appear to be supported
> by these two OS's, so I asked.... (see above :-)

You should at least get an ID when you do "lsusb", and with that ID
you can search at http://www.linux-usb.org/



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