On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > Hello. > > I have a USB device being used on a headless router which I need to > shut down and power back up from time to time under control by system > scripts. Do you know whether the router's hardware is capable of turning off the power to its USB ports? Lots of USB hardware is not able to switch the power off. > The router is running Debian "Lenny" (4.3.2-1.1) on an old Dell > Optiplex 260 under kernel 2.6.26-2-686. I searched the Debian repositories, > but I could not find a likely candidate for something to handle this, so I > then searched the web for a good candidate. I found hub-ctrl-2.c from 2006 > by NIIBE Yutaka, which looks promising. I'm having problems getting it to > compile, however. I've only written a handful of programs in C, so forgive > me if I making some rookie mistakes. I'm compiling using gcc version 4.3.2. Shouldn't you ask the program's author about this? > The source code requires the headers usb.h and mod_devicetable.h, so > I downloaded them, as well, placing usb.h in usr/include/ and placing > mod_devicetable.h in /usr/include/linux. Normally usb.h belongs in /usr/include/linux as well. > When I tied to compile the program, > it complained about, "expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'xxxx`", so I > added "#include <inttypes.h>" to the hub-ctrl-2-1.c source file. When that > didn't work, I also tried adding it to mod_devicetable.h. I still get the > same sorts of errors. Here is the output from gcc: Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
