On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:01:47PM -0600, Jay Austad wrote: > I just picked up a Viewsat VSPRO satellite receiver. It has PVR > functionality which records shows to a USB connected hard drive. I want to > get this data on my fileserver without having to physically move the drive > to another machine and copy the files. > > So, here's my idea... I have a little embedded network device that runs > linux. It has a USB port on it. I want it to act as a USB drive for the > VSPRO, and then it would mount my fileserver over the network, and anything > copied to it over USB would shoot over the network to my fileserver. > Basically, I want to build a USB->network bridge for a device that does not > support networking. Is this possible? Does someone make a commercial > product that does this? Check out the NGW100: it can act as an USB device and comes with emulations for mass storage, network and serial profiles. http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4102 It costs about $80 (and you need to add a power brick). Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071220/21144cb6/attachment.pgp