[Gllug] USB on old hardware

Fri Feb 1 12:57:00 UTC 2002

George F. Saxby
    Systems Engineer
       I.T.S. Team

>>> Paul Brazier<pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk> 02/01/02 12:39pm >>>
Do people know how well USB works with old motherboards/processors?

A quick Google search suggests that you need a Pentium at least and the
BIOS needs to support USB as well. So does that rule out me using my old
486 as a router/firewall with a USB ADSL modem or is there some way
round this?

Maybe I should just get a cheap Pentium - I guess they must be almost
giving them away now - but will they all work with a USB PCI card in?

>From personal experience no but ymmv, its easier to get a s/h Pentium 1 transition board that had usb on it. Mail me off list this evening & i will look through my bits trunk.

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Paul 

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