On 2013-09-29 21:33, Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote:
I used USB wireless adapter in the past. Years ago actually, and only because an internal chip was not supported.
Does this discussion regard USB WiFi, or also Bluetooth, or 3G/GPRS modems (and/or USB-connected cell phone tethering), etc.? My home-NAS is built on an (old) Asus P5b-Deluxe motherboard, which beside two different Marvell NICs includes a WiFi minicard over some internal pins that can otherwise be used for USB9/USB10 (IIRC). This box is not currently available to me for remote use (some disk died, and I am out of the country so can't repair the system now), but I do remember the system seeing the WiFi NIC as "rtwl" I think. And I have reasons (above) to believe that it might have been implemented over USB :) Likewise, I do have a BlueTooth USB dongle for a PC which does not have one on board. Though I can't say it had much use lately (I am surrounded by a couple of recent-enough laptops now).
I think USB 3.0 is all about external hard drives these days.
I think my laptop's card-reader is wired over the USB3 chip also. And maybe any "on-motherboard" hardware might also be wired so, now or in the near future. PS: Garrett, thanks for looking at this at all! ;) //Jim Klimov ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
