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 > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 1644 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071220/35060c7e/attachment.bin