bah, so far I have bought 2 different NEC USB2.0 cards, and both fail.

the one with a D720102GC chipset and 4 ports is recognised OK in Trident, but the minute I connect a device , the device dies. (I am a fully regged PSD user, and my reg-details appear on the nec-controller settings)

and the 2nd with the tested (by some members) NEC D720101GJ chipset with 5 ports causes the pegII not to boot at all...



can anyone recommend a specific tested model, preferrably on eBay? or maybe someone sells one here?

thanks!

well, try some via board... i have two of them, and both works perfectly. imo, if the nec card is well recognised, but it breaks after a while, then it's perhaps a settings problem. try to play with it a bit.

bye, MarK.

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Try setting usb-enable? to false in OFW, this should remedy this problem (which is due to a bug in OFW), but will disable access to any USB devices from OFW!


- CISC

so in OF prompt I should try:

setenv usb-enable false

right?

the above does not work, I get a:
"error: no such configuration variable"

you've forgotten the questionmark. try this one

setenv usb-enable? false

[ Edited by analogkid on 2007/7/11 17:00 ]

sorry, I did include the question mark... there is no such variable... ?

OF version: 20040405172512

peg2_usb-var.jpg

proof LOL

Lol

Proof? You forgot the switch of false?

Hi,

well I use this one here:
http://www.rmsvideo.ch/public_rms/morphos/exsys_usb2_card.jpg

in 6 Pegasos2, and everything works fine here.

This card has the NEC chip. So perhaps you have some other problem?

Regards

Christoph

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Are you trying to challenge Virginia Tech? ;)

@magnetic

no, this is a printenv to see the variable setting, not a setenv command to adjust it...
I found out that I have v1.1 OF, so there is no usb-enable? variable

@rms

thanks, I have located one in eBay...



[ Edited by keropi on 2007/7/12 8:07 ]

Hello,

@keropi, you can update your firmware to version 1.2 from end of 2005. Try to obtain this update from BPlan or Genesi. GGS Data gave it for a while but I do not know if they still maintain this... Otherwise you can ask to some other users to send you this update. I can send it to you if you want, just send me an email, my adress is in my profile.

Brumiga

[ Edited by Brumiga on 2007/7/12 15:13 ]

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Uhm, so you want him to update his firmware so he can get a feature to disable?


- CISC

I actually tried an ALI based card... As far as I can tell it works fine...!
I did a little test, I copied the whole Quake3 drawer on a usb2 stick and I run it from there... somewhat long loading time LOL but it actually works ! i tried deleting files, no prob either!
is there another test to make to ensure it is OK?
thanks!

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Keep using it?

You shouldn't have to update to disable the feature. Old firmwares don't have it, so they don't init the card.

If you can see it, definitely try disabling usb in the firmware. It doesn't support any devices in the public firmware, just initializes and then *forgets* to quiesce the card when it gets into Linux or MorphOS.

I think MorphOS has a workaround for it but there's not much you can do if the USB card tries to access some memory across the PCI bus and the system has moved stuff around in the boot process..

In my experience, usb-enable? false doesn't do anything at all, I still got major crashes on high USB load with those chips (around ~2.6.9 I think, what kernel were we running in 2005?), which is odd because they quit happening with beta firmwares and the NEC chips are by far *the* best USB controllers on the planet and work everywhere else.

[ Edited by Neko on 2008/11/20 21:28 ]