Re: unfixable usb porthole

2014-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 October 2014 05:42:50 Peter Stuge did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think the point they were trying to make is that the device > > packager, who may not be the chip vendor, can put, if there is room > > in its flashrom,

Re: unfixable usb porthole

2014-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 October 2014 05:23:10 Greg KH did opine And Gene did reply: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 05:01:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 17 October 2014 03:48:48 Greg KH did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:18:

Re: unfixable usb porthole

2014-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 October 2014 03:48:48 Greg KH did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:18:26PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 16 October 2014 18:28:16 Greg KH did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 06:12:

Re: unfixable usb porthole

2014-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 October 2014 02:49:05 Clemens Ladisch did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 16 October 2014 18:28:16 Greg KH did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 06:12:48PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >

Re: unfixable usb porthole

2014-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 October 2014 18:28:16 Greg KH did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 06:12:48PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is there a move afoot to write a checker utility that determines if > > the usb device its pointed at is vulnerable, and can therefore

unfixable usb porthole

2014-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
ave. The makers like Prolific & FDTI are licking their chops at that prospect. But with my weeping willow tree usb setup here, thats not a very appetizing choice as I have well north of $2500 dollars in stuff with usb sockets on them. Thanks for any encouraging news. Cheers, Gene Heskett --

fat32-vfat differences?

2014-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
x says it has no knowledge of fat32, yet the target system is expecting fat32 only. Is this something I can fix with a fresh usb key? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt

Re: your old usbtree utility

2014-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 September 2014 17:18:27 Alan Stern did opine And Gene did reply: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 September 2014 15:17:24 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > Adding linux-usb, perhaps someone there can tell me how to tame this > >

Re: your old usbtree utility

2014-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 September 2014 15:17:24 Randy Dunlap wrote: Adding linux-usb, perhaps someone there can tell me how to tame this beast. > On 09/10/14 12:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 September 2014 14:30:22 Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> On 09/10/14 07:47,

Re: MAX3421E: device giving NAKs forever?

2014-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 13 March 2014 19:09:41 Gene Heskett did opine: > On Thursday 13 March 2014 18:15:06 David Mosberger did opine: > > To answer my own question: it appears that USB peripherals return NAKs > > not only when the peripheral is not ready to accept the data, but also > >

Re: MAX3421E: device giving NAKs forever?

2014-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 13 March 2014 18:15:06 David Mosberger did opine: > To answer my own question: it appears that USB peripherals return NAKs > not only when the peripheral is not ready to accept the data, but also > when the peripheral doesn't know what to do with the data. So an > infinite series of N

Re: Native resolution of a webcam from the lsusb -v output

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 11:48:14 Greg KH did opine: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 11:06:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So, in the interests of maintaining a square pixel, and a 1/1 pixel to > > pixel ratio so as not to throw away usable resolution by blending or > > int

Native resolution of a webcam from the lsusb -v output

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I am setting up a machine vision system, where the camera output is cropped to the point of a pixel in the camera is 20+ on the computer screen since we want .001" or .01mm accuracy in the final image presented to the machine operator. Imagine if you will, a 2304xwhatever camera tha

Re: Keyboard/mouse dead in 3.8.2 from kernel.org

2013-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 March 2013 15:19:17 Greg KH did opine: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 02:39:57PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 15 March 2013 14:39:35 Greg KH did opine: > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 02:07:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday 15 M

Re: Keyboard/mouse dead in 3.8.2 from kernel.org

2013-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 March 2013 15:02:42 Alan Stern did opine: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 15 March 2013 14:08:40 Alan Stern did opine: > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings; > > > > > > > > Wha

Re: Keyboard/mouse dead in 3.8.2 from kernel.org

2013-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 March 2013 14:39:35 Greg KH did opine: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 02:07:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 15 March 2013 13:51:47 Greg KH did opine: > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:20:41PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings; >

Re: Keyboard/mouse dead in 3.8.2 from kernel.org

2013-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 March 2013 14:08:40 Alan Stern did opine: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > What modules do I need to make builtin in order to have a working > > keyboard > > > when the boot fails when the keyboard/mouse is thi

Re: Keyboard/mouse dead in 3.8.2 from kernel.org

2013-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 March 2013 13:51:47 Greg KH did opine: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:20:41PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > What modules do I need to make builtin in order to have a working > > keyboard > > > when the boot fails when t

Keyboard/mouse dead in 3.8.2 from kernel.org

2013-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; What modules do I need to make builtin in order to have a working keyboard when the boot fails when the keyboard/mouse is this: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bD

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Apparently they do not Alan, the pl2303 in particular is a problem child, >> throwing several lost com errors a day when doing nothing more strenuous >> than talking to

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: >On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:04:41PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> byte of a packet is being thrown away about .1% of the time for the >> >> pl2303, but I'm not

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan Cox wrote: >> byte of a packet is being thrown away about .1% of the time for the >> pl2303, but I'm not sure if the FTDI driver still suffers from a similar >> rash. I > >A 20 byte low speed message is too small for flow control to account for >it. Where then c

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan Cox wrote: >O> believe at several second intervals. I can cut those messages to about > >> weekly by using an FDTI adaptor in its place, or I can stop them entirely >> if > >Sorry don't see the connection between the two stories ? > >Alan The connection is that

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan Cox wrote: >> To make it clear: Even aside from the buffer in 2.6's pl2303.c, there's >> a race: An in-flight write URB can fill all hardware buffers, making >> unsafe what previously appeared to be a safe write. I think it's >> essential to delay submission of t