[plug] USB2.0 PCI & Linux

[Chris Caston]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 17:54, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Trevor Phillips wrote:
> > I'm looking at picking up a cheapo USB2.0 PCI card (as a tide-over till my 
> > work PC gets an upgrade). Are there many concerns about Linux support with 
> > these, or are they all rather common & well supported interfaces?
> > 
> 
> Most of them conform to the EHCI interface and will work pretty well out of the box.
> The early NEC chipsets had speed limits (about 16MB/s) in the silicon, but they were the first EHCI 
> interfaces on the market so you can excuse that. Some cards still use these chips however.
> VIA have known problems with dropping interrupts, but the later kernels have workarounds for those 
> and can actually run an EHCI interface without any interrupts at all, although quite a bit slower.
> 
> In short, they all will work and if your not into max speed then any of them will do.
> 
> I have an NEC, VIA and ALi and all three of them kick along quite happily.
> 
> It is generally regarded as good advice to steer clear of the VIA chips if it's possible. ALi and 
> NEC seem to be pretty well regarded and supported.
> 

Thanks for telling me that. I've been wondering why my pilot syncs
sometimes and not others.

> Regards,
> Brad
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