I once tried to get a USB 2.0 card that was backwards-compatible with 1.1 working in my PCI PowerMacs. If the card is a PCI 2.1 card, there appears to be little hope. I traded it and got a regular old USB 1.1 card manufactured by MacAlly and another by SIIG that work just beautifully in both.
--Chris iBook 700 OS X.2.4 PM 7500/200 OS 9.1 PM 4400/200 OS 8.6, NetBSD On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 01:05 AM, Robert Dowgwillo wrote: > Recently I purchased an IOGEAR PCI card with two USB ports from CDW to > upgrade my daugter's PM 4400 running OS 9.1. The card is advertised as > being back-compatible with USB 1, and suitable for OS 8.6 and above. > Installed the card OK; system profiler sees it. Got an error > installing the > supplied software (driver?); it says either the file is corrupted or > the > software is incompatitible with my OS. Noticed the user's manual only > talks > about OS X. Say what?! Not much help from IOGEAR. CDW is working with > me, > but so far no success. Downloaded the USB Card Support software from > Apple. > Installed fine, but the machine hangs with a type 11 error on restart. > Even > restarting with extensions off doesn't work (I've never seen THAT > before!). > Had to reboot from my OS CD, then pull the installed files out of the > extensions folder before the machine would start up from the hard > drive. > Did this twice; same result. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
