i was planning to buy a usb 2.0 pci card at pc express today. when ipersonally, i've never tried a usb 2.0 pci card. but i would like to note
asked the technician if it's compatible with an old pentium 133, they
said that they are not sure. they wanted me to bring the unit to their
store to test the machine if it works. and of course it has a service
fee when i sent it to them. they only mentioned this because i asked
(and i don't like this).
that i recently bought a pci LAN card (edimax with rtl8139 chipset), and
put that into my old 166mmx. it didn't work. actually, i wasn't even able
to boot my machine. i use my 166mmx with clarkconnect for my "router/firewall"
and i already have 2 pci LAN cards in it. i thought it might just be that
i have too many cards in, so i left the edimax lan alone, taking out both
my older cards. PC still wouldn't boot. so, if ever there was a worry, its
that the pci specification on your p133 is too old for the newer pci cards.
has anybody have good (or bad) experiences with these kind of usb 2.0 pci adapters? has the standard for PCI card slots changed since the time when p133 were the top of the line machines (uhmmm... mi 90's perhaps?). will an "lspci -v" show my usb card? is there any different between computers today where computers have integrated usb ports?
as i've described above, it obviously shows there is a difference. plus, if i remember correctly, my machine (166mmx) has pci version 1.1 or something. it might be similar to your machine. but i don't know if the version has anything to do with actual changes to the implementation, or simply length of connector differences.
thanx in advance for you ideas...dex
-allan espinosa
bs ece ateneo de manila
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