Not meaning to beat this dead horse any farther than I have to, but it worked fine under Windows XP, 7, and Linux. It only came to have a problem after the Windows 10 upgrade the MS forced on the machine one summer day. The cure was to shut off the power saving features.
OBTW, the hub of which I spoke is part of the motherboard on the Dell computer. -Chuck Harris jimlux wrote: > On 12/16/16 6:33 AM, Chuck Harris wrote: >> A customer's 'doze 7 computer got auto updated to 'doze 10, >> and with that upgrade came a usb hub that timed out, turning >> itself off.... the only problem was, the keyboard and >> mouse were on that hub, leaving no way to signal the computer >> to turn the hub back on. > > That's a non-compliant hub. Part of the complexity in hub design is that it's > supposed to have the ability to "turn off (most) power to downstream devices" > and > "turn off (most) power to hub", but still trickle enough power through the > tree that > a leaf node can send the "wakeup" message back up the tree. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
