Will a keyboard and mouse work with a PCI USB board?
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From: nospam on 6 Feb 2010 23:18 In article <5a8700ad-7d5a-4b1f-b007-15e56f6d54f9(a)x6g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, DJW <ddwr(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > I checked ebay and found cares would there be any disadvantage to > getting a card that is both USB and firewire or would it possible work > better as a stand alone USB PCI card and if I want to add firewire ( I > have two ports now) I get a PCI firewire card seperatly? either way. do you have enough slots for everything you want? just be sure it's ohci compliant.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 7 Feb 2010 07:18 DJW wrote: > On Feb 6, 12:12 pm, nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >> Erik Richard Sørensen <NOS...(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: >>> Some non-Apple keyboards and mice will not work with an USB PCI card in >>> the B&W G3, because the PCI cards load rathr late in the system parts in >>> both OS 9.x and OS X on those machines. >> wrong. if it's a usb standard keyboard or mouse, it will work. > > I checked ebay and found cares would there be any disadvantage to > getting a card that is both USB and firewire or would it possible work > better as a stand alone USB PCI card and if I want to add firewire ( I > have two ports now) I get a PCI firewire card seperatly? No problem, most of my cards are combo cards with both Firewire and USB (PowerLogix PowerFoce Combo). No differences in how they work. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: DJW on 7 Feb 2010 11:41 On Feb 6, 10:18 pm, nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article > <5a8700ad-7d5a-4b1f-b007-15e56f6d5...(a)x6g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, DJW > > <d...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > I checked ebay and found cares would there be any disadvantage to > > getting a card that is both USB and firewire or would it possible work > > better as a stand alone USB PCI card and if I want to add firewire ( I > > have two ports now) I get a PCI firewire card seperatly? > > either way. do you have enough slots for everything you want? just be > sure it's ohci compliant. what does ohci mean?
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 7 Feb 2010 12:09
DJW wrote: > On Feb 6, 10:18 pm, nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > what does ohci mean? It's a type of USB host chip. There were two competing chipsets for USB 1. The Open (OHCI) and the Universal (UHCI) chipsets. Apple only supported one. The easiest way I know to check is to look at the big chip on the card. If it says "OPTI" on it, then you will be ok. Note that unless your computer had USB ports (and supported USB keyboards and mice) normally, adding a USB card, no matter what chipset won't get you USB support without an operating system. If you want to use the mouse or the keyboard before the operating system is booted and the drivers are loaded, they won't be recognized and you will need an ADB keyboard/mouse. Once finishes booting, the drivers will be loaded and you can use you USB keyboard or mouse. The best support for PCI USB cards was came in OS 9.1. Later versions of MacOS included it, older ones needed an update to get it. It works with MacOS 8.6 up to but not including 9.1, where it is already there. You can download it if you nose around Apple's website. USB 2 support was never included in MacOS before OSX, and AFAIK MacOS 9 (or older) won't run in native mode on Macs with USB 2 ports. Orange Micro sold USB 2 cards with OS9 drivers, but the cards and drivers are almost impossible to find. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia. |