Hi,
I have an 80 Gig external USB 2.0 hard drive that has been working fine with
my built-in USB 1.1 ports. I wanted to buy a cheap PCI card with two 2.0 ports on
it and throw it in there just so I can access that drive faster. I did attempt
to figure out what hardware is supported or not but just got horribly confused
and figured I'd just try the dang thing out.
So I got CompUSA's cheapest card and threw it in there. The hope was that upon booting, Mandrake would detect, configure and mount the drive like it did when it was plugged into the on-board usb ports. No luck. I downloaded the usbview tool, and my new card does not show up in there anywhere.
I'm pretty lost with the ohci, uhci, ehci drivers etc (meaning I don't know how to install or manage drivers). Can anyone tell me
if this just is not going to work at all, or maybe point me in the right
direction for getting this guy configured.
I am running Mandrake 10.0 Official with a 2.6 kernel. I saw this on a post somewhere and figured I'd run it, which at least gives me hope that the card is visible:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jeff]$ lspci -v | grep HCI
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
01:09.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
01:09.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Believe it or not Jeff, I have the same card. You're using a 2-port card, correct? :)
It seems to work, although I'm having a problem using my USB DVD writer, which I'm guessing is a problem with some driver. You need the EHCI kernel driver for USB 2.0, and then you may need either UHCI or OHCI to handle the USB 1.1 functionality of the card. You might also want to try adding the "enforce bandwidth" option at config time. Running lsusb might provide more information too.
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