On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Andrew Lees wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Ok, here are a couple more data points: I got hold of a usb2 pccard, and it > works perfectly with the Lyra, transferred ~3G with neither a single error > nor retry. The second is that I did the unthinkable and fired up XP, and the > built in hardware sort of works - for a while - then the link dies... looks > like the hardware is suspect, or at least needs some special TLC. Time to > get in contact time Dell technical support to see if they know anything > generic, if they would let on. I can't quite see it being a single machine > failure - else why would uhci work without a hitch? Bu you never know.
Okay, for the time being this can be chalked up to bad USB hardware. As for why UHCI works when EHCI doesn't... They are separate controllers. One could easily be broken while the other works normally. > Under the circumstances, it may be better to put this one aside until I find > out a bit more. I will try the 2.6.11 driver, and see what Dell says. > Thanks for your assistance so far. BTW are there any other problems reported > by Dell users? I haven't heard of any problems being reported that were specific to Dell computers. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
