USB Mode Button

This small app adds a button to your installed applications list to toggle USB host mode on and off. Based on a script from the Openmoko wiki, the app enables / disables USB host mode, the USB0 network interface and power delivery.

Version	0.3	Status	Stable
Developer	Joseph Reeves	Category	System
Instructions	http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_host	Homepage	http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds

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opkg install http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/resource/usbmode-button_0.3_armv4t.ipk

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iknowjoseph wrote: (2008-12-11 11:32:57)

Thanks gecco :-)

Pander wrote: (2009-01-03 15:07:30)

Thank you for this time saving app. Could you please use an icon that is 80x80? The current icon is not so sharp because it is zoomed in. Thanks.

Pander wrote: (2009-02-12 01:19:45)

On SHR, this does not work. How can this be fixed?

Michael Tansella wrote: (2009-02-18 18:27:47)

The path of the new kernels is different:
just change /usr/bin/usb.sh to:

#!/bin/sh
grep -q 'host' /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-ohci/usb_mode
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "0" > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode
echo "device" > /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-ohci/usb_mode
echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/gta02-power\\:blue/brightness
ifconfig usb0 up
echo USB-Port is in device-mode now.
else
ifconfig usb0 down
echo "host" > /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-ohci/usb_mode
echo "1" > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode
echo "1" > /sys/class/leds/gta02-power\\:blue/brightness
lsusb
echo USB-Port is in host-mode now.
fi

Michael Tansella wrote: (2009-02-18 17:15:43)

Be careful the Escape sequences (some backslashes) are wrong in my last post. I notified the webmaster.

Tobias wrote: (2009-02-18 18:28:20)

Fixed.

bpill wrote: (2009-03-22 16:26:31)

when uninstalled, the place where the icon was does not go away and clodding the desktop

BiggMatt wrote: (2009-05-14 16:20:27)

Does this app allow powered hosting?

robin paulson wrote: (2009-05-15 04:07:17)

@bigmatt:
yes, the host mode by default will provide power to any devices connected.

robin paulson wrote: (2009-05-15 04:26:06)

i still don't think those escape sequences are right guys - there's one too many backslashes between 'power' and ':blue'. check out the address via the shell prompt, and you'll see

robin paulson wrote: (2009-05-15 05:07:58)

those sysfs paths are wrong too. 's3c2410-ohci' should be 's3c-ohci' in both instances