Hi there, Please take a look at http://search.ebay.co.uk/usb-firewire-pci-card_W0QQfcoZ1QQfromZR8QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1 for an example of the kind of cards I am thinking about buying. There are choices where one PCI card has two via processors which control 4 USB 2.0 and 2 Firewire ports. Since my existing Motherboard Asus A7n266-vm does not support USB 2.0 on resident ports, I am keen to have this add on.
However, I am not sure whether PCI->USB2.0 and PCI->Firewire hardware like this would be supported in Linux. Of course, the advertisers consider it sufficient to say "Fully supported for windows xp". There is OHCI compliance advertised on these, but I am not sure whether that helps once the card is talking to my motherboard over a PCI interface. Has any of you successfully used it? Tips welcome. Thank you, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
