> -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Stern [mailto:stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:06 AM > To: Leslie Rhorer > Cc: USB list > Subject: Re: Controlling a USB port > > 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. I know, but if the built-in hub does not, I can always use an external hub. Once I get the program to compile, I'll know for certain. > > 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? He hasn't posted anything since 2006. > > 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. The include doesn't spec it there. It's finding it. > > 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
