On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:48:49 -0700 John Michael Williams wrote: > I have a Dell GXpro with no USB hardware and 33 MHz > PCI bus. Pentium Pro, 200 MHz. > > I am running Red Hat 3 on kernel 2.4.21-4.EL. > I know this has USB drivers builtin, because it > is the same release as on other computers with > USB hardware, and their USB ports work well. > > I have seen many USB add-on boards advertised as USB > hubs and designed for a PCI bus. However, they > always say they are for Windows 2000 or XP, etc. > (and/or Mac). They seem to include specialized > sw drivers.
Sometimes they say "Requires Windows 2000 or better" so Linux qualifies (as better). > Will one of these boards work if I plug it in to > my PCI bus? If not, are there Linux drivers > avaliable somewhere. Most of the "install USB" > web postings at the Linux project date from years ago, > and I can't tell what actually would be required. > I downloaded usbutils v. 0.11 but it is > the same version as came with my Red Hat release. PCI USB controllers usually work fine in Linux. There is a list of user experiences with them at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/controller.php . If you have a problem, I expect that it would more likely be with such an old Linux kernel rather than with the hardware. --- ~Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
