USB 2.0 PCI card drivers for Panther

[El CaMOTe]

I bought a USB 2.0 PCI Hub card for a PC.

It has an AVI chip on it and no drivers for OSX.

Any ideas how to make this thing work in my 867 PowerMac quicksilver ??

Cheers,

[El CaMOTe]

Oooops, wrong Forum. I should have chosen Big Macs ??:blush:

How do you transfer forum ??

[El CaMOTe]

To answer myself, I took the plunge, plunked down a whopping 400 smackers and got an el Cheapo generic PC USB 2.0 PCI card with a VIA chipset with only Windows drivers, installed it on my 867 Desktop and it got recognised as a high speed USB. Q.E.D.

Thing is now, I have to get something that uses USB 2.0 !!!:sick:

[peter_ob]

Could not resist it, could you Tom? Glad to hear it worked.

[extremyks]

Find someone who's willing to test their 4th gen ipod using usb 2.0 :P

[El CaMOTe]

Just to update you on this,

Yup, on my QuickSilver, it got recognised alright, as an Apple branded card and high speed USB bus ...

After all this time, when I finally tried a LaCie USB 2.0 3.5" External HD, it would not mount. The LED lights up but it does not flicker. It mounted on the USB 1.0 Mac ports. I tried plugging a mouse into the USB 2.0 card and it did not work.

Tried it on my friend's G3 B&W G4 550 upgrade desktop, & the same, recognised but when he plugged his generic 2.5" USB 2.0 external HD, it did not mount.

This card comes with a VIA (not AVI) chipset and from the VIA website, there is no support for the Mac, no drivers etc.

So now I am stuck with 2 cards, I got an extra one pa !!! So if anybody knows how to best sort this out, I am all ears !!!

...or knowing my luck, these 2 USB 2.0 PCI cards are for sale to any PC owners there, cheap !!

Oh well, that's the breaks. !!