> I saw references to a few PocketPC's that support a
> USB Host.  I saw Toshiba and a couple of other
> manufactures mentioned. I expect PocketPC
> driver support is lacking so it may not help much
> unless I feel up to learning the PocketPC driver
> DDK.

The Toshiba e75x series (and I believe the e400 and
e800) has a built in USB host and you can get a cable
to connect USB devices to it (however, there are
directions on the web to hack a USB port onto the
cradle so you don't have to buy the cable). Anyways a
friend of mine got very excited because there's a
"sample HID driver" installed on the Toshibas and he
was interested in getting his HID-based products to
work on Pocket PC. Well after downloading the Windows
CE .NET 4.2 evaluation kit from the Microsoft website
and looking at the HID code it would seem you have to
write a driver that sits on top of their HID code --
examples from books such as "USB Complete" rely on a
couple of files (such as HIDSDI.h) that don't appear
to exist on this platform (perhaps someone online has
developed one, I don't know). There are built-in
keyboard, mouse, and "consumer device" drivers that
use the sample HID driver... so maybe they'd be easy
to modify. But it doesn't look like USB drivers are
too easy on these guys.

- Todd.






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