[rescue] Sun USB support...

[Ken Hansen]

Found this message, going through old rescue maillist digests on my work PC - what USB card could I use under Solaris on my Ultra 30? How do I know what an OHCI USB card looks like? (vendor, model, etc...)

I too have a USB Zip drive that might find use on my Ultra, maybe even a scanner (doubtful though)...

Thanks in advance for any insight provided,

Ken


Message: 13
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:41:09 -0600 (MDT)
From: <james at foonly.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Subject: Re: [rescue] I'm one happy geek
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> I personally think that USB is rather nice.  I wonder if it would be
> possible to get working via a USB PC Card, and a sbus PC card thing.
> Those sorts of USB cards probably wouldn't be supported by solaris though.

PCI, but still:

hydra:/home/users/james% man ohci
Reformatting page.  Please Wait... done

Devices                                                  ohci(7D)

NAME
     ohci - OpenHCI host controller driver

SYNOPSIS
     usb at unit-address

DESCRIPTION
     The ohci driver  is  a USBA (Solaris  USB Architecture)
      compliant nexus driver that supports the OpenHCI Host  Con-
     troller Interface  Specification  1.0a, an industry standard
     developed
      by  Compaq,  Microsoft,  and  National Semiconductor.
<snip>

I've had a USB card (first in my AXi, currently in my U30) for over a year
and a half.  It's a garden variety OHCI card purchased for $19.95 at
Fry's.

Works great with zip disks, printers, and quite a variety of interesting
input devices.  I'm currently playing with gutting really cheap PC USB
joysticks for data acquisition.

<snip>

-James