USB over IP

[Tuftec]

Has anyone attempted to develop an extension to handle remote USB connections over IP?
Possibly based on the USB/IP project. http://usbip.sourceforge.net/

It's beyond my skills, but something I would find usefull. Particularly if the usb connections could be achieved over the regular public internet through firewalls and all.

Peter.

[netnomad]

sounds really interesting...

[hiro]

What exactly do you need this for?
I use my USB printer with CUPS and RAW protocol over wifi.

btw this message comes to you via IP over USB

[Mork]

Would love this, Then I can use som old thinclients as USB over IP servers

[netnomad]

or an old scanner, too!

[Juanito]

the latest stable linux version looks to be 0.1.7 from 2009 and will not compile with our kernel...

[Juanito]

after some more searching, I found the linux side of things has been moved into the kernel tree.

Compiling from the kernel git:

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$ usbip version
usbip (usbip-utils 1.1.1)
..but:

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$ sudo usbipd -d
usbipd: error: failed to open /usr/local/share/usb.ids
libusbip: debug: usbip_host_driver.c:244:[open_sysfs_host_driver] sysfs_open_driver_path failed
usbipd: error: please load usbip-core.ko and usbip-host.ko!(should be smart enough to realise usb.ids is gzipped 

and, from the tinycore .config:

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# CONFIG_USBIP_CORE is not set

[curaga]

Still marked experimental in 3.2.