Installed USB2 Card

John M. Moniz john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 14 04:16:58 UTC 2006


Jamon Camisso wrote:

> John M. Moniz wrote:
>
>> I just installed a USB2.0 PCI card to my PC running on FC4 and now 
>> the PC is not behaving. It's very slow and it locks when I try to get 
>> a console while in KDE (Ctrl-Alt-Fn). Is there some module I need 
>> installed? I now use USB 1.1 without problems (built in to the ATX 
>> motherboard). Or could my PC be too slow for USB 2? It's an AMD K6-II 
>> 550MHz w/ 640MB RAM, which is old but has been fast enough for me to 
>> this point.
>>
>> If I am reading dmesg correctly, Linux is detecting USB 2. When I 
>> plugged an ipod shuffle to the new card, the ipod came up as a 
>> removable drive but the entire machine was crawling at about a 100Mhz 
>> speed.
>>
>> Any helpful tips would be appreciated.
>
>
> Tried it with a livecd?
>
> Jamon

It doesn't seem to have the same problem using knoppix. Any idea why the 
difference?

John

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