Anyone considered coding an ethernet->USB driver for linux? USB<->Ethernet adapters exist, as does the driver s/w for win95/98, should be a straight forward hack. Think of the possiblities that would become availble! :)

The USB is a slave port. You need a USB master to drive the adaptor and the empeg doesn't have one and won't have one. The empeg folks said that a) they don't have room, b) that 99.9% of the people need a slave device so they can hook it up to their home PC for downloads (and a master can't talk to a master without special additional hardware), and c) that USB master chips usually come attached to a PCI bus - which the empeg doesn't have.

Cheers,

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Clarke has already described why this isn't possible so I won't repeat that.

However, it may be possible to run PPP over a USB pipe in the future. Once the USB support in Linux has stabilised we might have a go at doing this ourselves. I won't even contemplate doing it from Windows though :-)

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)