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Suggestions wanted - USB 2.0 card for G4 Sawtooth
From: dakidd@sonic.net (Don Bruder)
I've got a Visa gift card burning a hole in my pocket, and I want to get
myself a USB 2.0 card for a Sawtooth G4 running a fully updated copy of
Tiger. Looking for the cheapest-to-get-it-in-my-hands 2+ port PCI USB
2.0 card I can find that's *ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN* (barring an unexpected
DOA) to work in this rig.
Currently have a card I picked up cheap at a PC/Windows-targeted
retailer on the "Well, I'm already standing here to buy a firewire
cable, and this card is only 8 bucks, so if it doesn't work, at least
I'm not out much" theory. Turns out the theory was at least partially
sound: I'm not out much. But the card is junk for Macs - It's built
around the VIA 6212 chipset, and although the Mac sees the card (and
even correctly recognizes it as a 4 port USB 2.0 card) *NOTHING* I plug
into it is recognized as even existing, let alone being functional.
After much chasing around the web looking for information, drivers, etc,
etc, etc, for it, I've come to the conclusion that I should have done my
research first - Then I would have known that a VIA chipset card is just
a fancy piece of tech-junk here in Mac-land - MANY people on many
forums/comment pages/etc report the same symptoms for their own
VIA-based cards: The card is recognized by the Mac, but nothing plugged
into it "exists" as far as the Mac is concerned. Several of them report
that moving it to a Wintel box and installing one of several available
Wintel drivers makes it work just fine, but after verifying that it's
live, and moving it back to a Mac, same story: Card is there and
recognized, but nothing plugged into it can be seen.
I don't really much care whose name is printed on the box - that'll go
in the recycle bin shortly after I get it plugged in and working - or
whose warehouse it ships from, as long as it's cheap, and I can be sure
that when it gets here, it's actually going to function.
Anybody got any particular favorites?
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