Hi Adam,
I'm not an expert on this, but I thought an over-current condition
meant that the USB device was pulling too much power from the computer,
not that the computer couldn't supply it.
regards,
Stephen.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> I'd like to add a couple of data points that I forgot in
> my previous message about USB 2.0 devices connecting as USB 1.x
> devices on my ALi and VIA PCI USB 2.0 controller cards under
> linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk1.
>
> Firstly, regarding the overcurrent condition that the
> VIA PCI card reports with the USB 2 devices, it occurred to
> me that I might have a power supply problem, so I reconfigured
> that computer to have only the VIA USB 2 controller card, a
> video card and one hard disk, and the problem still occurred
> as before. The power supply claims to be 300 watts.
>
> Secondly, the motherboard has a regular ATX power plug, a four
> prong "pentium 4 / ahtlon" power plug, and a power plug like ones you
> see on disk drives. Unplugging the last one still gave the same
> results. (This was a real shot in the dark anyhow.)
>
> So, it seems less likely that it is a physical power
> problem in the computer, although I wouldn't say that possibility
> is completely ruled out yet.
>
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