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Originally Posted by tompe
Isn't there a difference with power available in the USB port? With the N810 and a female-female USB converter I can connect a lot of things to it such as USB memory and my IXUS 850IS and use gphoto2 to download the images to the N810. I have also managed to get an HSDPA USB modem to work with it by using an external battery.
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I wanted to follow up on this. I was wrong about the ports being the same. Actually they are different. One is a mini-USB and the other a micro-USB. I forget which is which...but they are physically different. Who knows why?
Anyway, good news was I did get my Franklin CDU680 to fire up today via the N800's USB port using the drivers on the device and the USB OTG adapter. Now all it did was look for a network, probably really just went through POST and then never found anything because something is not yet setup correctly on my N800.
I was able to measure the voltage of the port accurately using the special converter-OTG adapter and get a steady 5.09v which is plenty to power the modem. Still as I said above, I just wanna see it work but I will always connect via the router. Besides the router adds that extra layer of protection. Even though it's Linux and should be secure out of the box so to speak, and since I am not even close to an expert at all with Linux, there could be security holes you could drive a truck through.
One thing a day is all I am trying to figure out...keeps me busy at least.
