Hello all.
Well, that Firewire/USB 2.0 card does not work on my Beige G3 DT. The firewire works, but the usb doesn't work at all in either OS X and or 9. By the way, I'm running Panther on the machine now and it's great! But I was trying to combine Firewire and USB in one card. I don't need USB 2.0. I just need "regular" USB. Is there a cheapo card out there that anyone has found that works in a beige mac running panther or jaguar? I wonder, is it the 2.0 on the USB that "breaks" this card on my comp. whereas if it weren't 2.0, it would work.
Thanks for that posting Jeff. That was most helpful. What makes it confusing with that seller also is that they elsewhere sell a combo card with "one" chipset and they tout that as the advantage that it has over other cards. The reason I need the combo card is because I only have one PCI slot available for them.
Also, have the issues that Panther had with Firewire been resolved. It was able to mount my external firewire drive (LaCie 120GB) but it kept having problems transferring files and it would freeze the computer. Finally, it said the drive needed to be repaired but neither diskwarrior in OS 9 nor Disk Utility in OS X could repair it so I reformatted it. I'm wondering this happened b/c the card was incompatible with my machine or is the Panther still having issues with Firewire?
-Felix
Did you install the drivers for the USB 2.0 portion of the card? I'm not sure about all USB 2 cards, but I had a SIIG 5-port USB 2.0 card which would not work without drivers. I know the ports are backward compatible with USB 1.1 devices, but I don't believe the chipsets are compatible - you'll probably need a driver to use a USB 2 card. In my case, the drivers were for OS X only - no USB 2 support for OS 9 at all.
Not sure if this is helpful, but it might be...
Gary
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