Anyone have this device?
What have you used it for, and how did it work?
Things I am possibly interested in using it for:
USB storage
CD ROM drive or burner
Ethernet adapter
Printer (if possible)
I know the speed isn't going to be amazing, so curious what it will work for.
I've been using SubWay since my tower upgrade a few years ago, and I've loved it so far! Anyway, for USB storage most thumb-drives I've plugged in seem to work fine, with the exception of U3 "Smart" drives Those also mount as a USB CD-Rom, basically as a means of loading its windows task-launcher via the autorun.inf file. I would disable it, but I've found out how to mount my own image to the "CD-ROM" by mimicking the U3 servers directory structure, and adding a line in the "HOSTS" file along with a web server. >Anyway, the problem with that is Poseidan tries to correct the device size on the fly. (The "smart" drive reports as being 8GB, even though there's a ~600MB .iso file on it that isn't part of the filesystem).
I've not tried any CD-Roms, other than the fake U3 one, but I'm sure it would be slow. I tried a printer once, but didn't have any drivers for it. (An old Lexmark printer)
Ethernet, I wouldn't bother with. As mentioned in a previous post, its gonna be slow. Probably better than dial-up, though. If you still have access to a PCMCIA slot (some accelerators tend to block that due to what I'm guessing was some C= engineers really bad hangover), a 10mbps in there would work alot better. (3COM etherlink II cards worked well for me in the past).
Noticed some stuff about USB mice, if your games multitask, it *should* work, if not, it won't. WHDload chokes on USB, but if you don't use it, its obviously not a big deal. (There's 2 lines you can edit in its prefs to enable/disabe it anyway, tons of threads about that one)
One problem thats really easy to run into, though, is the power. It takes it 5v off the motherboard, which can be a prob with a normal 1200 PSU (or even a 500 one), depending on how much stuff you put in there. I've gotten around this with a self-powered USB hub. The 3 reamaining ports I use for relativly low power stuff. (Memory card reader, a USB extension cable that stands up, and a USB floppy drive. OK, the floppy might be pushing it, but it hasn't been a problem, and I should mention its a really cheap way to be able to read 1.44MB PC-disks)
Also, I've used my Clié with it, a couple of generic MP3 players (they mount as removable devices), keyboards (same probs as mouse), digital cameras (also mounts as a hard-drive), joysticks (again the mouse/keyboard probs, not sure what the point in this would be, though I use a playstation dvd-remote+playstation to USB adapter as a task launcher), and I think I tried a USB microphone once.
The only probs I've not been able to get around are with flatbed scanners, webcams, (driver issues) wifi cards (poseidon didn't know what the hell to do with it), and various odds and ends (stuff I found in my massive digital pack-rat boxes of stuff my wife wants me to get rid of, basicially "Hey, a usb connection, will this work?") that use weird custom drivers.
