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raptorz2003x
21st April 2004, 12:47 AM
hello im working on a htc wallaby usb interface. but i have stumbeld across the problem that the htc wallaby is only a slave interface and therefore cannot use usb devices as they are also slave. how can i make the xda a host device? thankyou.

kwlandry
6th May 2004, 09:11 PM
Raptor,
Read MSDN USB site about USB and the need for a Host Controller in order to host USB peripherals. They recognize that wince/pocketpc should have hosting functionality but they haven't got there yet, therefore all wince devices have to be treated as peripherals for now, which means for now you can only run as slave. If you need to drive a usb peripheral from your wince device an option is to add an SDIO pcmcia USB connector and write USB drivers through it. A forum on ExpertsExchange talks about these add-ons. I can;t imagine this is the solution you're looking for though.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wceddk/html/wceddkUSB_Driver_Interface_Functions.asp