[Scottish] Hub/switch...

[Mike Quin]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:02:29PM +0100 or thereabouts, Miah Gregory wrote:
> If I remember correctly, some USB hubs (including those built in) won't
> provide power until a device has properly connected, ie. talked it's way
> through the handshakes etc.
> I could be completely wrong though, it's been a while.

I can't claim to know much about this, but if that were the case
wouldn't it render devices with no external power supply useless -
they wouldn't be able to gnerate a handshake without USB power.

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