Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:50:38PM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:58:50AM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote:
> >>>Are you running the latest BIOS?
> >>The manufacturer, Tyan, didn't produce more than a handful of BIOS'es 
> >>within a matter of months after they started producing the board.  They 
> >>haven't released an update since 2000.
> >I used to have this motherboard, and Randy Dunlap and I spent a lot of
> >time to try to get this to work properly.  Just give up and go by a
> >motherboard that actually has a sane bios, or, buy a USB pci card (less
> >than $20).
> 
> Tempting, but how do I know the new board will work?  Shoot, it took me 
> about a year to get everything in this system to work excepting the USB. 
>  Do you have any recommendations for a good Linux SMP motherboard, 
> preferably for AMD processors?

Get a PCI USB card, that's the easiest solution (and cheapest.)

Good luck,

greg k-h
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