USB over ethernet

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Wed Jul 19 14:15:02 EDT 2006


Thanks. I saw that, but I was hoping for something that's a bit more
mainstream (eg. doesn't require kernel re-building).

--Bruce

Thomas Charron wrote:
>  Or, just take a grander at:
> 
> http://usbip.naist.jp/
> 
>  Like I originally said.  ;-)  The USB/IP project literally installs a stub
> USB hub driver that routes the raw data over the network.  Hypothetically,
> any device can work in this method, although network latency may make some
> devices impractical.
> 
>  Thomas
> 
> On 7/18/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:

>> On Jul 17, 2006, at 12:57, Jeff Kinz wrote:
>>
>> > But web cams are purported to be character devices and are not
>> > supported
>> > right now.
>>
>> Maybe you could use netcat then?
>>
>>    http://netcat.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> (half the readership goes 'ewww')
>>
>> -Bill





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