Using Dongle As Flash Drive

[nigelth]

Hi I am trying to use my dongle as a flash drive, I have inserted a micro sd card but no pc will recognise the sd card unless the mobile vodaphone software is on their computer. most people don't want the vodaphone software on their PC. How do I get round this? Thanks

[Neil_Brown]

What operating systems are on the PCs?

Does the operating system recognise the device at all? Do the user account have admin. rights?

It might be that, under Windows, you require a specific driver to access the flash drive capability on the machine?

[Retired-Matt_Vo]

Hi Nigelth

When you insert any device into a USB slot it comes with its own drivers and installs itself so that the computer can recognise what is it the slot.

With the dongles the drivers are built into the VMC lite software so you wont be able to use it unless you install the software first

Thanks
Matthew
eForum Team

[Neil_Brown]

When you insert any device into a USB slot it comes with its own drivers and installs itself

This is not really correct - there are many standard USB drivers supplied with most operating systems, so that individual drivers are not needed for common products. Most USB flash drives will not require third party drivers, since they will use the USB Mass Storage Device driver (within Windows).

Similarly, normal keyboards, mice and the like will make use of usbhid.dll, as long as they comply with the USB HID guidelines.

As such, many components do not require third party USB drivers, since they can rely on system-provided ones.

Indeed, this is the basis on which many components which require third party drivers function, particularly those which store their own driver onboard; if it were not, then, when the device was plugged into the host computer, there would be no way for the host computer to be able to communicate with the device to extract the driver to install it, relying either on pre-supplied but non-loaded drivers on the host operating system (inefficient), or else downloading from a different location (be it removeable or remote).

However, if the USB dongle, since it does not expose the flash card in the same was a normal flash drive, may require a specfic driver from the VMC package.