using expansion jacket to access usb devices - can I?

mark_l_sanders · 03-16-04, 07:08 AM

This may be a stupid question but:

if I get hold of a:

CF Expansion Jacket
a CF to PCMCIA card
a PCMCIA-based USB hub

can I use USB periphs such as keyboards, hard drives etc with my iPaq, or, as I suspect, would most devices simply refuse to work due to lack of drivers?

whitelyt · 03-16-04, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mark_l_sanders
This may be a stupid question but:

if I get hold of a:

CF Expansion Jacket
a CF to PCMCIA card
a PCMCIA-based USB hub

can I use USB periphs such as keyboards, hard drives etc with my iPaq, or, as I suspect, would most devices simply refuse to work due to lack of drivers?

You will need the PPC drivers for the PCMCIA USB hub. But why would you go with the CF expansion jacket when there is a PCMCIA expansion jacket?

seek · 03-16-04, 01:57 PM

Theres a PCMCIA adapter to usb...So I could connect to a USB flash drive etc?

Seek.

whitelyt · 03-16-04, 02:45 PM

Here is an example of a working configuration.

whitelyt · 03-16-04, 02:48 PM

Look at the link above.

mark_l_sanders · 03-16-04, 03:24 PM

thanks whitelyt. shame about the bus power rating, isn't it.
ciao

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