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Re: PHILIPS 7FF1AW Digital Photo Frame - £99


  • Subject: Re: PHILIPS 7FF1AW Digital Photo Frame - £99
  • From: "dermot_bradley" <bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:03:40 -0000

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Kim Wall <kim@...> wrote:
>
> dermot_bradley wrote:
>
> > Doh! If only it worked while USB was connected then it would be
the
> > perfect "remote updatable" frame.........is there an
electric device
> > that does the equivalant of plugging in or unplugging a USB
connection
> > on demand? :-)
>
> In Linux, rmmoding and re-modprobing the USB driver should do it.
> Standard procedure for automagically hard-rebooting those Alcatel
> stingray ADSL modems.  Clearly this is only a sane thing to do if
> there's only the one device on the bus, but it should work...

In this case it would be the usb storage module - which I use for some
other devices as well and so actually have compiled into my kernels.

However you do have a good idea in principle. I'm seriously
considering getting one of the Philips frames so I'll give this a go
to see how it works...








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