I think I've found the OTG cable us N810 users need.
USB Micro male -> USB A female
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Yes! Thanks Andy!!!!!
I received mine a few days ago (airmail from China), & it's great!!
I took it to a conference with my N810 & very nice portable Addesso WKB-4000US keyboard. I connected the N810 car mount to the keyboard with a thin sheet of steel. (I also added a power switch to the keyboard to prevent keypresses in my bag from using up the batteries.)
I did the entire conference with my N810, except for a slide presentation I had on google docs. [Ironically, the windoze laptop I borrowed for that blue screened ~6 min before I was to present.]
The unusual N810 setup also had the positive side effect of opening up a lot of conversations.
hi,
Thanks for all the information in this thread.
I want to use the USB connection from N810 to connect to my BB 8703e from Verizon and do tethered access to internet. I already have tethered data plan on the BB. can I just use the following commands from the BB forum to do this:
Username: "<number>@vzw3g.com" *<number> is area code and number ex: 5555551212
Password: "vzw"
Number to dial: "#777"
8) It will try to connect and more than likely fail, just click skip and setup connection anyways.
one issue I can see is that connections from my N810 Control panel only shows the WLAN, GPRS and Data calls. How do I get the N810 to recognize the USB connection to the BB? Will going to host mode do it?
I am still waiting for the USB cables to do this test. Any help is appreciated.
I cannot get usb host to recognize any drive I have attached, I have tried micro SDHC adapter, Seagate 8gb external drive, Sandisk reader with MMC, SD, and SDHC cards, MacAlly firewire/USB drive enclosure, with powered hub attached, and with female to female usb adapters, FAT and EXT2 and EXT3 formatting.
I always get "Hostmode started.....usb device not supported...Unable to connect, no file system available." with each and every device permutation I have tried. I used the installers for USB Host and USB OTG from the OS2008 downloads page - but I have also tried the usb host commands into Terminal, same result. I do have gainroot installed. Please help!!!
I always get "Hostmode started.....usb device not supported...Unable to connect, no file system available." with each and every device permutation I have tried.
That error message is normal and should be ignored. you need to find out if the device has actually been recognised.
Plug in the device and enable USB host mode. Use dmesg to look at the messages being reported from the kernel. You should see something like:
Code:
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
In addition, you should be able to see the partitions on the device listed in /proc/partitions and, after a few seconds, Maemo should mount the devices (type 'mount' and look for devices mounted on /media/usb/something). At that point the device should also appear in Maemo file selection dialogs (at the top level, next to "Internal memory card", "Removable memory card", etc.).
If the device is found by the kernel but is not being mounted automatically try mounting it yourself: as root, type 'mkdir /mnt/aaa && mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/aaa' (where sda1 is the device listed in the dmesg messages). Depending on how the device has been formatted, and whether you want to be able to access it as the normal user, you may need to play with options for the mount command.
If dmesg is not showing that the device has been found, and it does not appear in /proc/partitions then you need to look at the dmesg output to see if you can work out what is going wrong.
