On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 04:42:39PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > Oh! A VIA USB card. I had a USB card recovered from a PC at work that > proved unreliable in the PWS and the XP1000 and my recollection is that > it had a VIA chipset. I thought the card must be faulty, but maybe > there really is a problem with VIA USB and Alphas.
Hmmm... At some point, I'll be glad to be the confirming test case :-). > I'm currently running a no-brand USB/firewire card in the XP1000. Lspci > reports: > > 0001:04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation uPD72874 [Firewarden] > IEEE1394a OHCI 1.1 Link/3-port PHY Controller (rev 01) > 0001:04:01.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) > 0001:04:01.1 USB controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) > 0001:04:01.2 USB controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) > > That works really well for me. I said the other card I was going to try was "NCR", and I meant "NEC". As with you, the NEC chipset is on a no-name card, and now I'm even more certain it will work in the Alpha. Thanks for the steer, and I'll keep you posted. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
