75XX USB Device

This board contain both USB Host and USB Device ports. This section will discuss the configuration and use of the Linux USB device gadgets (http://www.linux-usb.org/). The two supported gadgets are 1) USB Mass Storage Device and 2) IP over USB (A.K.A. USB Ethernet).

The USB Mass Storage Device Linux USB gadget will allow you to use your SBC as a storage device, like a USB thumb drive, when connected to a host PC. Subsequently, the SBC can access the saved data through the storage element named usb_storage_file.

The IP over USB (A.K.A. USB Ethernet) Linux USB gadget will allow you to connect to your SBC with a USB cable from a PC like you would with a CAT5 Ethernet cable. You will have access to the SBC via the TCP/IP connection allowing you to use any networking utility (e.g. ping, ssh, ftp, http, etc).

All software modules required for Linux are contained on recent SBCs (those released with the May 18, 2010 or later software load). For Windows, a driver interface configuration file (linux.inf) will need to be downloaded and installed on the host PC. This procedure is described in detail below. The linux.inf file can be downloaded here.