16 Aug 2003, 12:06, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615), wrote to Matt Mc_Carthy:

Hi Roy.

 RJT>> I'm looking at adding USB here,  somewhere.  I'll probably have 
............

 MMC>> and I was never able to get it to work.  Disabled in the CMOS 
 MMC>> seems to let the add-in card work fine.

 RJT> That's where most of mine are set.  The one board that runs the 
 RJT> linux box has what appears to be marked USB but it's next to a 
 RJT> 10-pin header,  not too far from the serial ports -- in fact the 
 RJT> one serial cable was plugged into that connector.

 RJT> Local computer store guys tell me that I should be seeing a 
 RJT> 4-pin connector. 

Two five-pin headers is most common.  The last two (farthest from Pin #1)
are both grounds.  Very few cables are made up with _both_ grounds, so that
leaves you with a four-pin connector to plug onto a five-pin header.  In
all cases Pin #1 should be +5V, and it is current limited by a micro fuse
just like the one the keyboard uses, smaller value though.

If you have anything other than an Intel chipset, it just might work!  The
first two generations of Intel chipsets simply fail to function.


     Good luck...  M.

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