On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 14:03, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> Being short of a USB plug and with PCI cards ($20 Tastech) being much
> cheaper than hubs, what's the general opinion of these cards under
> Linux - is it plug in and go (as usually happens with mobo USBs), or
> does it have to be decided on a case-by-case basis?
I have not had any experience with the cards, sorry Volker. However,
apparently USB-hubs can poke out quite a bit more power than a PCI
card, which can be important if you have a number of devices drawing
power from the bus, such as recharging MP3 players.
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
