usb port

I have an old noname cheapo webcam, that I dusted out of my junk (why? More on that in a post coming soon).

I hoped that it would work in my Ubuntu setup out of the box like most of my other hardware. I connected it to my laptop's usb port. dmesg gave the following output:

These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port.

Computingtech: "Simply plugging the drive into the USB port will automatically mount the drive. From there, you can access it as you would access any mounted partition."

This device works as advertised for my purpose, which is to connect my Samsung Hue via BitPim. I've used the adapter on two systems (both running XP SP3), and it works flawlessly, installing the native XP drivers (no need to install the much more...

Tritton Technologies released SEE2 Xtreme , a USB 2.0 DVI video adapter that makes it possible to connect an external display through a USB port.

3EPC released its 3G Monitor tool; eee220. This is an Eee PC based monitor tool for the Huawei e220 3G USB-Modem.

When you insert your e220 into an USB port, the tray monitor will popup & shows you the current signal strength & will give you the option to connect/disconnect or to configure which connection it should monitor.