IOgear network USB hub
G'day All, Anybody had any experience with either of these: IOGear Wireless 4-Port USB Sharing Station IOGear 4-Port USB Sharing Hub Both come with installation CD which raises concerns. Or any suggestions on similar devices? Thanks Keith Bainbridge PO Box 324 BELMONT Vic 3216 Australia +61 (0)408 522 706 keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com
Anne Bainbridge wrote:
Anybody had any experience with either of these:
IOGear Wireless 4-Port USB Sharing Station IOGear 4-Port USB Sharing Hub
Not me, sorry.
Both come with installation CD which raises concerns.
That's not a showstopper -- there are *mice* that come with windows driver CDs, but you plug them into linux and they just work. A USB hub would be pretty hard to screw up. I don't know what a 'sharing station' is, but if you already have the device, try lsusb and google for the resulting ID and string.
On 03/08/12 11:53, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Anne Bainbridge wrote:
Anybody had any experience with either of these:
IOGear Wireless 4-Port USB Sharing Station IOGear 4-Port USB Sharing Hub Not me, sorry.
Both come with installation CD which raises concerns. That's not a showstopper -- there are *mice* that come with windows driver CDs, but you plug them into linux and they just work.
A USB hub would be pretty hard to screw up. I don't know what a 'sharing station' is, but if you already have the device, try lsusb and google for the resulting ID and string.
The problem is that it is a TCPIP wireless device, not a USB device. That means that you need to have a driver to map the network attached device as a local USB device. You also need to be able to configure the IP settings of the IOgear hub. So sorry, it is a showstopper. Regards, Morrie.
Thanks All. Sounds like I'll have to look at something like a pi box? Keith On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:41:20 +1000 Morrie Wyatt <morrie@mtiqualos.com.au> wrote:
A USB hub would be pretty hard to screw up. I don't know what a 'sharing station' is, but if you already have the device, try lsusb and google for the resulting ID and string.
The problem is that it is a TCPIP wireless device, not a USB device. That means that you need to have a driver to map the network attached device as a local USB device. You also need to be able to configure the IP settings of the IOgear hub.
So sorry, it is a showstopper.
Hi, On 5/08/2012 10:27 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
Sounds like I'll have to look at something like a pi box?
If you want throughput, then I don't think the pi will be the answer. USB 3.0 is the go these days and the Pi only has 2.0 ports. Also, the Ethernet is just 10/100 as well. Raspberry Pi has a 10/100 Ethernet port which is driven via USB 2.0 1[1] I don't know, perhaps a new small box with 3.0 ports running as a USB server? Debian, at least, has libusbip0 package [2] in stable. [1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs See "Why no Gigabit Ethernet?" [2] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libusbip0 USB device sharing system over IP network (shared library) USB/IP is a system for sharing USB devices over the network. This package provides the shared library libusbip0. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM
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