N900 Hardware USB Host
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Status
Beta Release.
"Paul has found out that it is impossible (at least at the time of writing) to detect speed changes while VBUS is running, so for now, you have to select speeds manually. Use common sense in doing so, high speed is for devices that require a lot of writing and are fairly new (flash drives/HDDs/CD-drives, new hubs). Full speed devices are devices that do not require a lot of USB activity, such as BT/2.4GHz mouse transceivers. Low speed devices are normal mice and keyboards."
"A help window is available and will guide you through the steps needed. The mount button is currently hardcoded to mount /dev/sda1, default for most USB flash drives and HDDs. For NTFS support, do modprobe ntfs as root For ISO (CDs/DVDs - most of them), do modprobe isofs (also as root). CDs will have the dev node /dev/sr0, so you'll need to do mount /dev/sr0 /mnt etc... Disabling tracker by adding /media/flash to tracker-cfg's non watch configuration is recomended, use tracker-cfg UI."
Installation
Install hostmode-gui from -devel, your kernel will be replaced.
apt-get install hostmode-gui
Warning:
Uninstalling "h-e-n" might brick your device. However, it's easy to restore it to a working state by re-flashing the kernel.
Steps:
- download http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N900.php?f=RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin
- download flasher for your system from http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php and install it
- Turn off your device
- Plug-in usb cable into n900
- open console and run flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin --flash-only=kernel -f -R
The .bin file has to be in the "current" directory.
- Initiate flashing by pressing enter
- Turn on your device, slide-down keyboard and press "U"
- Wait until flashing is finished
- You should get a working phone with all of your programs and settings.
Devices
- USB HDD
- USB CD-ROM
- HUBS
- HID(Keyboards, mice, joysticks, touchpads, etc)
Demos
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDzUG-bno6Q by MohammadAG (usb CD-ROM)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qfx_jaQ9jo&NR=1 by divan0 (usb HDD via usbhub)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9byE_qTl15M by divan0 (usb keyboard)
Hostmode development team:
Project Admins:
- Joerg Reisenweber
- Paul Fertser
Developers:
- Chitrang Srivastava
- Dave na
- Hagen Meyer
- Ian Stirling
- Jacek Milewicz
- Klaus Kurzmann
- Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh
- Mugur Enache
- Sarah Newman
- Sonny Jim
- Tom Tanner
"Thanks to everyone part of the h-e-n team, and most importantly, thanks to Joerg Reisenweber for starting the project and leading it, and thanks to Paul Fertser for the new kernel patches, written from scratch."
Most information is taken from this thread created by MohammadAG