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from: shadow{at}shadowgard.com
date: 2005-06-28 02:52:48
subject: RE: Fun with USB

From: shadow{at}shadowgard.com

On 28 Jun 2005 at 18:02, da Silva, Joe wrote:

> I'm not sure how ISA cards fit into this picture. They
> might not be one of the three standard USB controller
> types - UHCI, OHCI, EHCI. Your chances are probably
> better with a PCI card, and certainly better with an
> on-board USB controller. Your chances of finding a DOS
> driver for non-standard USB controller hardware is about
> zero.

Well, since my DOS boxes are all 386/486 they don't *have* PCI slots. 
:-)

I've got EISA, VESA and microchannel boxes though. :-)

 I think there may be a way via a PCMCIA-USB adaptor,
> but there you probably need to get _three_ drivers to
> co-operate, which would reduce your chances of success.

My need for USB PCMCIA is for an older laptop running Win98. Going to 
be a loaner, and having USB would be nice.


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com




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