Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3166 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dougmack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an old AMI motherboard, and when I tried a USB card it
didn't work.  I don't know who made the card.  Old MB's with
old BIOS's may never work with usb cards. Be warned.  --doug

At 21:25 03/02/2003 -0500, PL O'Smith wrote:
>On Saturday 01 March 2003 11:49 am, Stuart Powell wrote:
>> Hello, everyone.
>>
>> I am planning to add a USB card to my old IBM PC Server 704 in order
>> to hook up a new printer to it.  Ideally, I would like a card with 4
>> or more ports instead of just two.  Does anyone have any suggestions
>> for cards available in the US that will work with SuSE 8.1 Pro ?
>>
>> I have been looking at Belkin, Adaptec, SIIG, both USB1.1 and USB2. 
>> None of them seem to explicitly say "Works with Linux", and I'd
>> rather buy one that works first time, instead of trying a few that
>> don't and finally finding a good one.
>>
>> I'm also mulling over the combo cards with USB2 and Firewire, even
>> though I don't have any USB2 or firewire devices right now.  Again,
>> it comes down to a compatibility issue.  If the cards will work fine,
>> it might be worth a few extra dollars now just in case I do get any
>> of these faster devices in the future.
>>
>> I checked the linux-usb site, and they seemed to infer that all
>> OHCI/UHCI (USB1.1) and EHCI (USB2) drivers are in kernels 2.4.19 and
>> above, although the USB2 driver is still marked experimental.
>>
>> So, do any of you have great success stories, or tales of woe, with
>> any particular products that would fit the bill ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stuart.
>
>----------------------------
>Hi Stuart,
>I have successfully installed and used the Belken USB 2.0 card without 
>problems.  It was being used under a 2.4.18 kernel by the way, but I 
>did upgrade the user to 2.4.19 for the best compatiblity and drivers.  
>It uses the OHCI/EHCI standards and the user has used a USB2 scanner, 
>card reader & external cdrw on the card.  It contains 4 external and 1 
>internal USB2 connectors.  I highly recommend it!
>
>Patrick 
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