Hmm, I would have to write a bunch of code to make this work wouldn't  
I?  Have any of you guys played with this?


On Dec 20, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Florin Iucha wrote:

> 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
>
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