On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:00:02PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: | On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, dman wrote: | | > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:38:28AM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: | > | Hello, | > | | > | Our lug is in need of buying a usb controller pci card. I looked around, | > | and found two types of cards. | > | The dlink 500 and a safeway (don't have more specs). | > | | > | I looked at the linux-usb.org site, but couldn't find anything about it. | > | Does anyone know if this is supported by Debian? | > | > According to | > http://www.dlink.com/products/usb/dsb500/SpecsTable.htm | > it is a UHCI USB controller. | > | > Both UHCI and OHCI USB controllers are supported, and I can say that I | > have a UHCI controller that I am using right now. | > | > D-Link's networking hardware (NICs and the switch I have) are good, | > and I certainly hope they didn't do anything dumb to make this USB | > controller not work. | > | > I just downloaded the driver from their site (win98 and win2k only) | > but I see the file "VIAUSB.SYS" in the zip file. I bet this card is | > based on a VIA chip. | | Ok, I'll ask in the shop. Does linux support this via chip?
No idea -- I don't even no _which_ VIA chip. If you have the package you can look at the card and see what numbers are printed on the bigger chips. That usually helps. -D -- (E)ventually (M)alloc()s (A)ll (C)omputer (S)torage
