[wellylug] linux usb

[Jamie Dobbs]

> Linux has trouble with some USB hardware, esp the ones on older, like
> 3-4y old mobos. I can only print a photo every second time on mine, the
> other half it gets stuck in the USB driver (and with this *&@*#$ cups
> you can't even kill it). Check the enclosure on different hardware
> (running Linux obviously, you're not interested in whether it works
> under M$, which of course it does). No luck -> get a better enclosure
> (the old story, really). The idea of a mobile harddisk only works as
> far as the box it's connected to has functional USB hard and software.
> Same goes for firewire.

Interestingly enough there are no problems using my motherboards USB1.1
ports, but there are using a PCI card with USB2 ports. My guess is that
the Kernel is still not quite up to spec with USB2 - after all USB2 is
listed as experimental still (in the Kernel's I have tried anyway!).