Hi:

I am currently doing a stint of eldercare at my folks house and so I 
cobbled together an old computer so I could have some minimum os/2 
functionality while I'm here.  Then I discovered I really could use 
USB for transferring the files I work with here when I go back to 
home.  The computer doesn't have online access.

The Motherboard is a FIC VA-503+ (circa 1998), 166mhz, I think.  It 
has an onboard USB connector, 2 rows of 5 pins each.  There are no 
stores that carry the necessary HW to make this connection so I 
robbed a connector from another old piece of junk I had laying around.

But it doesn't work.

I've activated usb in the bios, loaded usb drivers from 10.158 & 
10.145 distributions.  They are detected on bootup according to 
the /v switch and according to usbcfg.  So I believe my problem may 
be the usb connector that I am using.  I'm trying to use a thumb 
drive, it works fine on 2 computers at home but here the activity 
light does not come on and refresh drives does nothing.

The 10 pin connector is using only 4 of the pins.  These terminate in 
a little circuit board at the USB plug.

Does anyone know if 4 wires on the MB connector to the usb plug 
sounds correct or maybe I am using a wire/plug that won't ever work 
right.

Thanks, Jon






 
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