USB requires a rather speedy CPU. If your P1 is less that 100MHz then you might be out of luck, certainly for USB2 and perhaps even USB1. The USB FAQ says if your machine was from before 1998 your machine probably doesn't support USB. THey also have a "usbready" application to check your machine, but of course that only runs on windows.
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Maxxer wrote: > Hi > > I've a Compaq Armada 1530 Pentium MMX laptop I'd like to use as "webcam > server". I have a Philips VestaPRO usb webcam, but the pc doesn't have any > usb port. So I tried using a PCMCIA USB2.0 card from Hama (?), loading > kernel modules OHCI and EHCI. Everything goes fine, the pwc webcam module > loads correctly and create the video4linux device. But when I try to > access the webcam with any program, the computer stalls. No Ctrl+c, no > console switch, nothing. But if I remove the card the pc comes back to > life (obviously with some nice error messages saying I removed the cam > when it was being accessed)! > > I've tried the same configuration, even with the same modules (using > kernel 2.6.3), on a Compaq E500 laptop and works fine, I can grab images. > > Is it possible that the usb2 is not supported by the Pentium 1? The person > who gave me the card used it on a Win98 system, and with its drivers works > perfectly (probably as usb1). > > Anyone has an idea of what the problem can be? > > Thanks > Maxxer > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
