in my experience with my sawtooth, a usb2 card with the NEC chip
works--but other usb cards from my parts bin with other mfr's chips
don't work.  the mfr of the chip is silkscreened onto the chip.

ken



On Jun 30, 9:21 am, rbridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've upped RAM to 1Gb, OS is up to 10.4.11, and I'm trying to support
> Eyeball 2.0 Webcam/mike pkg by speeding up the USB to 2.0. I added a
> generic USB 2.0 PCI card with four ext and one int. port, but the
> machine doesn't seem to acknowledge it...still no action at the
> webcam, unless I plug it into one of the two older USB 1.1
> ports...they see the camera but operation is sporadic and the video
> shuts off quickly.  Am I doing something wrong? Is my USB card maybe
> only for PC?  Do I need a driver for the new USB 2.0?
>
> If it works at some point, do I end up with  "two USB buses"? That is,
> one at 1.1 for the keyboard plugs on the original rear panel, and a
> 2.0 bus at the four new PCI plugs...? Any help much appreciated...
>
> Bob Bridge
> St. Peter's NS, Canada

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