I just got one of the Belkin 4 ports (F1DS104U) and am having some
problems. A quick search through the mailing lists revealed others
having the same problems. I might have some information to shed further
light (or shadow) on the problem.

Like everyone else I'm having problems with one of my linux boxes
working with this, though all the windows boxes work fine. The
difference is, one of my linux boxes works flawlessly. Here's the
details. The linux box that doesn't work is an AMD Athlon 1GHz running
on a VIA chipset motherboard. I've tried both uhci.o and usb-uhci.o with
equal results as everyone else (Belkin hub detected but none of the
devices, timeout messages, etc). At the lilo prompt, the keyboard works
fine, so the BIOS recognizes it at lease. I've tried using and not using
HIDBP as well.

Now, the linux box that works grand is my IBM ThinkPad T30 (P4 1.8GHz,
Intel 860 chipset). I've been using the uchi.o but usb-uhci.o would
probably do just as well. Currently I've only been using HIDBP but I bet
without it would work just as well. When I plug it in to the same port
as the machine not working (or any other port for that matter), it
detects first the Belkin hub, then the keyboard, then the first mouse,
then the trackball, then the 7 port hub connected into the belkin as
well. It gets everything great. Keyboard and mouse works flawlessy.

The differences here, obviously, are the chipset and the fact that my
laptop has a ps/2 keyboard and mouse already set up. I'm not sure if
having this legacy key/mouse makes a difference.

Two things I'll be trying will be:
-using ACPI on the failing machine (don't think this will have an
effect)
-starting the machine with a ps/2 key/mouse to see if that affects
anything
-putting a pci usb card and seeing if it works from that

What are the feelings on this. Am I the first person to have gotten a
linux box to work with the Belkin KVM?

-- 
Ti Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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