On 9/18/06, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote: > > I've updated http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_SwitchToHostMode with this > information. > > It would be nice if someone confirmed the "might work" part. > > (Can I buy a USB hub that provides power to the 770? I'm not all that > proficient with soldering irons.) Some hubs will inject power into the socket that you normally plug into your computer (the square shaped one). If you get a female-to-female converter, you can use standard cables (the one that came with your 770 plus the one that you would normally ue to plug the hub into the computer) and a powered hub to do what you want without soldering. I have done so in the past. I would imagine that this doesn't work with all powered hubs. The only way I discovered that my hub back-feeds power was that it kept the fan running on my graphics card even when my system was powered off and unplugged! I give no guarantees as to how healthy this is for your hub or 770 though. I will try to give your modified instructions a spin when I get a chance. Thanks for updating them. /Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060918/e3f3990d/attachment.htm
