The Poseidon USB Stack. Last time updated: 08-Aug-09 12:55:31

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The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with USB interface, ranging from mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flash card readers, zip drives, floppy disk drives, harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters, scanners and audio adapters to less common things like power supplies, GPS location devices or finger print readers. It is intended to be a solution for all systems.

Obtaining a keyfile for Poseidon is no longer possible. Poseidon V4.3 is exclusively available NOW for the E3B boards and shipped with the DENEB USB 2.0 controller card.

Donations of USB hardware may yield a working driver, if possible and reasonable. Other donations are welcome using my Amazon Wishlist (DE) or Amazon Wishlist (UK). No PayPal available.

Please visit the Highway USB Yahoo group for support (for all Poseidon users)


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Supported USB hardware so far:

Class	Example	Software
Hubs	External hubs, both buspowered and selfpowered	hub.class (included)
Mice	Three button mice, pointing devices, tablets supporting boot protocol	bootmouse.class (included)
Keyboards	All sorts of keyboards	bootkeyboard.class (included)
Tablets and other input devices	All sorts of keyboards (including special keys), mice (including scrollwheels), tablets (including pressure), special support for wacom tablets, joypads (analog and digital, with lowlevel.library support), touchscreens, 3D Space Navigator(TM), etc.	hid.class (included)
EGalax touchscreens	Special touchscreen driver	egalaxtouch.class (included)
MIDI via USB	MIDI keyboards and interfaces. CAMD driver and keyboard mapper	simplemidi.class (included), camdusbmidi.class (included)
USB Audio Streaming	USB soundcards, headphones, etc.	usbaudio.class (included)
Mass storage devices	Compact flash readers (and similar), ZIP drives, CD roms, harddisks, floppies, digicams & MP3 players with MSD support	massstorage.class (included)
Printers	All printers can be interfaced through an usbparallel.device, specific printer drivers available from third parties	printer.class (included)
Modems	CDC ACM (Abstract Control Model) modems. No Winmodems!	cdcacm.class (included)
Serial -> USB adapters	PL2303 chipset and derivates, CP210x chipsets and derivates	serialpl2303.class (included), serialcp210x.class (included)
Ethernet -> USB adapters	Pegasus, Pegasus II, ASIX, Davicom, and MosChip Chipsets	pegasus.class (included), asixeth.class (included), dm9601eth.class (included), moschip.class (included)
USB data link adapters	Various	ethwrap.class (included)
Misc. USB devices	Scanners, PDAs, etc.	rawwrap.class (included)
Palm Sync'ing	All sorts of PalmOS PDAs.	palmpda.class (included)
Bluetooth	Bluetooth HCI USB interface.	bluetooth.class (included), no Bluetooth stack included!
Firmware upgrading	Devices with upgradable firmware using the DFU standard.	dfu.class (included)
Webcams conforming to the UVC standard	USB Video Class compatible with MJPEG support	usbvideo.class
Webcams with STV680	Aiptek Pencam-Series, other cheap USB webcams with this chip	PencamTool, pencam.vhi (both included)
Webcams with Sonix chipset	Sonix webcams and derivates	SonixcamTool, sonixcam.vhi (both included)
USB Rocket Launchers	Toy missile launchers with USB connector	RocketTool (included)
USB Powermanager	Gembird Silvershield Powermanager SIS-PM, 6 outlet strip with 4 USB controllable sockets	PowManTool (included)
FM Radios	Cheap digital USB radio devices by D-Link and GemTek	DRadioTool (included)
Non-MSD MP3 players	Valencia MPX player other cheap USB MP3 Player using this chip	UproarTool (included)
USB Cameras with PTP protocol	Kodak cameras, some Canon cameras, maybe some others	Written by Christophe Genre (MorphOS only)
Lego Mindstorms USB Tower	Programmable Lego Tower	NQC port by Uwe Ryssel
Digicams	Kodak DC240(i) etc. through third party packages	VHI Studio with IOUSB
Scanners	Epson/HP scanners through third party packages	fxScan with IOUSB ScanQuix BetaScan

Supported hardware controllers:

Product	Manufacturer	Interface	Driver	Description	Image
Deneb USB	E3B	Zorro II / III autosensing	Main archive	Zorro III DMA or PIO based USB 2.0 highspeed controller with three USB ports and 4 MB FlashRom
Algor USB	E3B	Zorro II	Main archive	Zorro based USB controller with three USB ports and 512 KB/1 MB FlashRom
Highway USB	E3B	Zorro II	Main archive	Zorro based USB controller with four USB ports
Subway USB	E3B	Clockport	Main archive	USB controller for the clockport with 4 ports (can also be used on the special A600 clockport!)
pciusb.device (MorphOS)	any	PCI OHCI/UHCI/EHCI	Chris Hodges	For onboard chipsets and USB 2.0 PCI cards, included in MorphOS 2.0


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Poseidon Main Archive:

Archive Docs Size Version Description Screenshot

PoseidonV4.lha ReadMe 1076 KB V4.3 (07-Aug-09) Poseidon V4.3 main archive for E3B customers only. See ReadMe for details.

PoseidonV4MOS.lha ReadMe 1146 KB V4.2 (31-Aug-08) Poseidon V4.2 main archive for MorphOS 1.4.5 for PowerUP. See ReadMe for details.

Other E3B products hardware drivers and software:

Archive Docs Size Version Description Screenshot

Luciferin.lha ReadMe 173 KB V4.1 (30-Aug-08) Luciferin FlashRom software for Highway+Romulus, Algor(Pro) and Deneb. See ReadMe for details.

NorwayEthernet.lha ReadMe 60 KB V1.8 (25-May-03) Update of the SANA2 norway.device. See ReadMe for details.


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