[Gllug] USB to serial converters

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:11, adam at thebowery.co.uk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:45:35PM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> > Having read (briefly) the rest of your thread, one thing does come to
> > mind that might be worth mentioning. The kernel supplies two USB chipset
> > drivers - the UHCI_ALT driver, or the OHCI driver. ISTR that some
> > hardware would appear to work, but not actually work if you had the
> > wrong driver, and which driver was the best one to use depended on your
> > motherboard chipset.
> 
> Hangon a minute... that isn't quite right...

I found the one that worked on my motherboard, and haven't really looked
at them again since. I haven't counted them in a while ... :-)

> there are 4 drivers in the kernel (2.4) for usb, EHCI (for usb 2.0 which we 
> will ignore) and OHCI (which is for funny stuff like compaq, macs and crappy
> ali boards) and then there are 2 UHCI drivers of which I have had to use the JE
> version to make my usb adsl modem work on my epia board before...

I use USB_UHCI_ALT on an Intel 440GX chipset board, FWIW.

Mike.

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