Hello. Does anyone know if a combo card is supposed to work with a Mac even if
it does not mention Mac compatibilty. In particular, there is one that has two
onboard chipsets which is supposed to give better performace than ones with
only a single chipset. It's a Firewire/USB 2.0 card and can be cound here:
Here is the long description:
And here's the URL:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=3456937503&category=44933
I got one of these cheap combo cards and had the same Success & Failure under Panther 10.3.3.
I'm not totally giving up, but I don't understand this completely. On combo cards are both the USB & Firewire available simultaneously? If not, I have no need since I'm booted from the Firewire portion, and hoped to use the USB2 as a USB1 for my printer while booted from the Firewire.
I noticed that under System Profiler under USB it shows USB High-Speed Bus, and the extensions IOUSBFamily, IOUSBUserClient, AppleUSBEHCI, and AppleUSBHub are all loaded (I downgraded the IOUSBFamily from 2.0.8 in 10.3.3 to the developer "logged" version 2.0.5 from 10.3.2 in hopes that it would help as some suggested, but it didn't).
The unloaded USB extensions are: AppleUSBOHCI, AppleUSBMergeNub, IOUSBHIDDriver, IOUSBHIDDriverSafeBoot, IOUSBMassStorageClass, and a bunch of individual USB device drivers like CD, Keyboard, IRDA, etc.
On other devices, if you open certain .kexts and edit the Contents/Info.plist file to include the Device # and Vendor # of the specific card it will pickup the card and enable it. Is this a possible route to enable this USB ? What file would I look in? If not, what about loading the missing .kexts manually in Terminal?
I'm concerned that the developer tool USB Prober shows the card as an "Apple" card with device & vendor #'s that are correct for Apple but wrong for this card? The correct #'s are shown in Apple System Profiler. (Wrong #'s from USB Prober: Vendor:0x05AC, Device:0x8006 - Correct #'s from ASP: Vendor:0x1106, Device:0x3104). Perhaps these are the #'s I need to edit in the kext files?
Since I have no USB 2.0 devices there is the possibility that they work under the AppleUSBEHCI kext that is loaded, and only older OCHI devices don't work? Any ideas on enabling these inexpensive cards? Thanks! Kris Tilford
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