Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 17:08:12 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> To: tyler spivey <tspivey8@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: usb Message-ID: <20010623170811.A46849@johncoop> In-Reply-To: <200106231959.f5NJxu936969@home.com>; from tspivey8@home.com on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:59:56 -0700 References: <200106231959.f5NJxu936969@home.com>
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On 2001.06.23 12:59 tyler spivey wrote: > why does every os i have say i have an usb controller, but i can't > find the ports on the back??? > is this some other device spoofing? > Probably because you DO have a USB controller. A USB controller is usually integrated into the most current chipsets. In order to actually "use" the USB though, you have to install the "ports" (which usually come attached to an AT adapter plate and have two four or five pin cables to attach to four or five pins (one set for each cable) on the motherboard. This is particularly true on AT or Baby-AT form factor boards--most ATX boards of recent manufacture have two ports built in (and some have an additional two ports attached as I described above). For the definitive answer, what motherboard Make/Model do you have and what chipset is on it? jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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