Re: [Gumstix-users] A question about NetStix as a print server, etc......

[Jesse W. <jes...@gm...>]

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http://www.system76.com/

and your local pawn shop can probably provide you with $100 computers which
can run debian (w/o X).

On 1/6/07, Kurt Euler <kd...@pa...> wrote:
>
>  Thanks Alexandre! Very interesting!!!
>
> Do you happen to know of a low end, low power linux box available now tha=
t
> could serve as a print and file server box? I've been looking at AOpen's
> products, but they're a bit too expensive.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -Kurt
>
>
>
>
> Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote:
>
> Kurt Euler wrote:
>
>  Thanks Alexandre. Very interesting. A follow up newbie question: What
> is the difference between a device and a host, as you use the terms
> below. I mean, if you connect a HDD to a gumstix with the USB
> interface, I understand now that the HDD would be a "device", but what
> can you do with the HDD as a device? If I can't save files to it as a
> "host" (unless I try the workarounds you suspect are out there), would
> the HDD (as a device) be useable for other things, like a print server
> caches or something?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -Kurt
>
>  Let's put it this way: when usb was first designed, it was supposed to
> be an asymmetrical  solution, one side (the host, as in your pc's usb
> controller) being complicated and doing many things, and the other side
> (the devices, or anything you connect to your pc's usb controller)
> having one (or a few) dedicated functions, being much simpler to
> implement than the host.
>
> So the usb on the gumstix is a device, it's designed to be connected to
> a controller, rather than being a controller itself.  It can present
> itself to a host as almost any sort of device, but it cannot present
> itself to a device (such as a usb hdd), as being a host.
>
> But the time passed, and not only there were usb host added to some
> devices, but also an specification called OTG usb was created, to allow
> an =B5c to implement from sub-featured to almost (if not at all)
> full-featured usb host.
>
> The yet-to-come new revision of gumstix will have an usb controller.
> It's one of the most requested features, so some people on the list
> developed a few solutions to plug in a usb controller to the current
> gumstix. But these are not for sale, and I can't say a word about their
> maturity.
>
> That's (almost) it, I hope I could express myself.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Alexandre
>
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