Hi All;
I have now modified four USB fobs. I purchased about 8 of the Startech fobs (in the black plastic case). I discovered (after modifying unit #3) that the Linux box did not recognize the fob. If you insert the fob with Asterisk running and monitor CLI, you see an error along the lines of 'Device not recognized' - 'Device failing to accept address' - and it seems to cycle through various attempts at assigning an address. If you attempt to list the usb devices from the shell command, the fob does not show up.
I then took a brand new unmodified fob and repeated this - same thing!
Since I had a few left in the bag, I repeated this with another fob - and voila - no problem, no error on CLI, listing the devices from the shell command showed the fob - perfect - modified that one as unit #4!
So now I have 2 fobs that may be bad or require some other 'intervention'..... just wanted to pass that along in case any one else has the Startech fobs - bottom line is test them first before modifying (that goes for any make ;).
Cheers!
Ramesh.