Subject: Re: USB via PC Cardbus Adapters?
To: None <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
From: M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/14/2002 00:16:13
In message: <20020814042440.45306.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com>
Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> writes:
: I found some USB2 ports that connect via PC Cardbus
: adapters at Fry's Electronics. Examples include:
:
: OrangeUSB 2.0 by Orange Micro Inc (4 ports)
: USBconnect for Notebooks by Adaptec (2 ports)
:
: Does anyone know if these work on NetBSD? "USB Open
: Host Controller (ohci)" is listed under PC Cardbus in
: Hardware Compatibility at netbsd.org; but I couldn't
: find specific examples or references to USB2.
ehci is what you want to know. The USB 2.0 controllers are all ehci,
iirc.
: If these adapters are compatible, I would imagine that
: a lot of hardware would become much more useful!
Cardbus doesn't work, last time I checked, on any hpcmips machine.
These cards are almost certainly cardbus cards, so chances are they
work on NetBSD, but don't work on NetBSD/hpcmips.
Warner